BigList
Login / Sign up
Onibaba (1964)

Onibaba (1964)

Horror

The most daring film import ever...From Japan!

Release Date: 1964, November 21
Directors: Kaneto Shindō
Countries: Japan
Production: Kindai Eiga Kyokai
Cast: Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Kanzō Uni, Someshō Matsumoto, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Jūkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Kentarô Kaji, Fudeko Tanaka, Hosui Araya

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

murder survival samurai demon japan black and white jealousy jidaigeki hold-up robbery desertion 14th century sengoku period bamboo hut