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Onibaba
The most daring film import ever ... from Japan!
The most daring film import ever ... from Japan!
Drama, Horror - 1964
Onibaba
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$21.72
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8.0
88%
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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Director:
,
Kaneto Shindō
Cast:
,
Nobuko Otowa
,
Jitsuko Yoshimura
,
Kei Satō
,
Jūkichi Uno
,
Taiji Tonoyama
,
Hiroshi Tanaka
,
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
,
Fudeko Tanaka
,
Kentarô Kaji
,
Someshō Matsumoto

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
105 min
Release date:
21 Nov 1964
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
No masterpiece by any means, it's at times overplayed, but it's striking visually, handling swift horizontal movement very well. It's also genuinely erotic.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Too often, it turns out to be a pot-pourri of ravenous eating and blatant sex.
– ,
Variety,
14 Apr 2007
fresh:
A creepy, interesting, and visually striking 1963 feature by Kaneto Shindo.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Although his artistic integrity remains untarnished, his driven rustic principals are exotic, sometimes grotesque figures out of medieval Japan, to whom a Westerner finds it hard to relate.
– A.H. Weiler,
New York Times,
10 May 2005
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