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This clip is for the film The Memoirs of a Geisha where the main protagonist performs a theatrical dance. The dance has many interpretations or stories one of them is of the Snow Spirit/ Demon; Yuki Onna. There are many different stories and interpretations of this character but she is often said to hunt lost travellers, often seducing weak minded men, in snow storms killing them with her cold breath leaving them as frost covered corpses.
This music could be used to carry this story effectively. The first half is slow and winding: I can imaging Yuki Onna locating and seducing a lost traveler. The music changes in the middle climaxing: the chase begins in unrest as Yuki Onna catches her victim. With the final descending notes her breath freezes her victim killing him.
Theme: Deception, Japanese folk lore, Hunter and Hunted
Mood: Action, Dramatic, Thriller, Seductive
Atmosphere: Cold, Arctic, Suspense
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