Tomu Uchida's 1962 film The Mad Fox aka Love, They Name Be Sorrow is a visual tour de force. It calls to mind Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan and Keisuke Kinoshita's Ballad of Narayama in the film's artistic and stylized sets and backgrounds. This one also relies on animation and masks to create an artificial world in which this story of how a court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. However, tings begon to look up after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover’s twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifter foxes.
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