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TV Tropes provides a good starting point on the subject: An entity often seen in Japanese horror movies is a ghost, usually that of a young woman, with long, stringy black hair that covers her face, clad in a white burial kimono or shroud. Her face itself is often quite ghastly to look upon. This is actually a type of ghost known as an onryo, the ...

Found it - After the Rain. It seems like I got the description wrong since he was not wondering through the woods, but just practicing there, and he didn't find a house but it was his own house and his wife and the house was actually an inn.. Also, the movie is from 1999, so it's not as old as I thought it was but oh well, at least I figured out which movie ...

*I'll try to answer this with the thought that this whole question and answer might be scratched for being a borderline discussion/opinion piece... Many times when we are asked to consider the validity of film 'masterpieces' we must consider the context and history of the piece in question. Made in 1948, Drunken Angel was just one of a number of films that ...