| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1964 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 104min |
| Country: | Japan |
| Cast: | Directed by Kaneto Shindo |
| Credits: | Nabuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato (Japanese with English Subtitles, b/w, cinemascope, 35mm) |
Onibaba:
A tale about an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law who survive during Japan's civil wars by luting samurai into a deep hole, and then selling their armor to buy rice. Born into a peasant family Kaneda Shindo, viscerally sets the historical record straight by emphasizing the inhuman suffering of Japan's peasants, rather than the militray prowess of the samurai clans that battled for supremacy during this bloody period of Japanese history. A film whose blend of murder, nudity, sex, violence, and superstition made it a great success on the North American art-house circuit. Totally unlike Shindo's stark The Island, made with the same group as this film, it made a wild, sometimes sickening, impression on most viewers.
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