Nobody talks about this one. A puppet film adaptation of Doujouji transforms a centuries-old kabuki tragedy into something that moves through space like no other medium can, wood and silk becoming the only honest way to tell a story about a woman's rage turning monstrous. The puppets don't perform emotion the way actors do. They inhabit it. By the time the Bell Temple sequence arrives, you're watching obsession made physical, and there's no going back to thinking about classical theater the same way.

Musume Doujouji is a puppet film adapted from the kabuki play that shares its name. During the occupation of Japan, American authorities banned it, judging it too traditional. For a long time the film was thought to be lost, but a copy has survived. It stands as a stage-to-screen adaptation told entirely through puppetry.