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Onibaba (1964)

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鬼婆 / Onibaba (1964) - Kaneto Shindo

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Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō, 1964)

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Onibaba (1964)

Watching older, classic films - particularly foreign ones - is a unique experience. Many of the conventions from today’s cinema are in their infancy so you often see something old that feels new because the mold hadn’t been finalized yet. In its own, possibly unintended way, 1964’s Onibaba keeps you guessing. It feels like a horror movie but plays out as a drama. Deeply rooted in Japanese culture, I had no idea how the film was going to end.

Set somewhere in feudal Japan while unnamed lords wage a civil war, an older woman (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) hide in the endless field of tall grass. Stray warriors pass are murdered so the women can take their gear and make ends meet by selling it. When their neighbour, Hachi (Kei Satō) returns from the war, his presence creates a growing rift between the two scavengers.

Most of the characters in Onibaba are unnamed, further giving it a folk tale-like quality. You think you’re following a story about simple archetypes, a basic moral passed down through the ages when suddenly, characters will reveal something unexpected about themselves. This is probably going to be a morality tale - in the end, most horror stories are - but how is this a horror story? By showing you how cheap people's lives are. The women barely make a living stealing weapons and armor from people, human beings they had to kill. It fills you with dread thinking about how little they get for such a heinous crime done so regularly. The women are essentially cannibals, killing men at spearpoint to survive. It’s disturbing but is this what the title’s translation of “demon woman” translates to? It can’t be. “Woman” is singular so it must be that at some point, one of the two women will do something particularly evil… but which one?

The black-and-white photography adds much to this film. Had it been in colour, the fields of grass would make this whole movie green. It would feel vivid and alive. As is, it feels gloomy. The endless vegetation swaying in the wind reminds you of water. These two women are in purgatory and plagued by hunger. There’s got to be a way to escape but the only escape we see is this massive, gaping hole near their home. Its presence mimics the characters in the film, who are always hungry and never satisfied. You just know someone will eventually fall in, but when? What kind of hell awaits them at the bottom?

While Onibaba moves slowly towards an uncertain direction at first, stay with it. Just as you think you’ve got its story figured out, you learn a new detail about the old woman, or the daughter-in-law does something that sends ripples through their world and makes you forget your previous expectations. Now it's an erotic horror film, a drama, and a folk tale. It’s all sorts of things blended together and its artistic presentation makes it feel simultaneously classic and brand-new. (Original Japanese with English Subtitles, October 25, 2019)

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Onibaba (1964)

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Synopsis- An impoverished mother and daughter-in-law kill soldiers and steal their belongings. After the mother learns of the son’s death, she dons a mask to scare her daughter-in-law into staying with her. Director- Kaneto Shindo Starring-Jitsuko Yoshimura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Sato Genre- Horror | War Released-1964 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. “Onibaba” (1964) is a haunting and atmospheric…

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So, according to some reports, Kit and Sophie movie The Dreadful is a remake of the classic Japanese horror movie ONIBABA

Here some synopsis:

IMDB: Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask. Filmaffinity: After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon the mask will not come off again. In this disguise she is at first taken for a demon by her daughter. Wikipedia: The film is set during a civil war in medieval Japan. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill infighting soldiers to steal their armor and possessions for survival, while Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them.

If you read the full PLOT on Wikipedia, you will find that the movie is full of sex scenes.

ONIBABA was translated to Spanish as: "ONIBABA: The Myth of Sex"

Here some scenes from the trailer:

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Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura and Kei Satō

Onibaba (1964)

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Onibaba

12 1964 ‧ Horror/War ‧ 1h 43m

Onibaba (鬼婆, lit. "Demon hag"), also titled The Hole, is a 1964 Japanese historical drama and horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is set during a civil war in medieval Japan. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill infighting soldiers to steal their armor and possessions for survival, while Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them.

An impoverished mother and daughter-in-law kill soldiers and steal their belongings. After the mother learns of the son's death, she dons a mask to scare her daughter-in-law into staying with her.

Release date: January 29, 1966 (France)

Director: Kaneto Shindo

Cinematography: Kiyomi Kuroda

Language: Japanese

Distributed by: Toho Co., Ltd.

Music by: Hikaru Hayashi

Starring

Nobuko Otowa

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Kei Satō

Taiji Tonoyama

Onibaba (film) - Wikipedia

Onibaba (1964), dir. Kaneto Shindo

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鬼婆 (1964) - Onibaba

directed by Kaneto Shindō

starring Jitsuko Yoshimura 

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Jitsuko Yoshimura in Onibaba (1964)

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Onibaba, 1964

Kaneto Shindo

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Jitsuko Yoshimura in Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō, 1964)

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Onibaba [1964 Kaneto Shindō]

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ONIBABA 鬼婆 (1964)

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