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Onibaba (1964)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
“The most daring film import ever...From Japan!”
Horror · 1h 45m
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.
Cast
Nobuko Otowa
Woman
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Young Woman
Kei Satō
Hachi
Jūkichi Uno
The Samurai
Taiji Tonoyama
Ushi
S
Someshō Matsumoto
Runaway Warrior
K
Kentarô Kaji
Runaway Warrior
Fudeko Tanaka
Old Woman
H
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Horse Riding Samurai
Hiroshi Tanaka
Horse Riding Samurai
Kanzō Uni
Horse Riding Samurai
H
Hosui Araya
Ushi's Follower
Crew
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Screenplay
- Kaneto Shindō
- Director of Photography
- Kiyomi Kuroda
- Original Music Composer
- Hikaru Hayashi
- Editor
- Toshio Enoki
- Producer
- Tamotsu Minato, Hisao Itoya, Setsuo Noto
Details
- Original title
- 鬼婆
- Release date
- 1964-11-21
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Horror
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Kindai Eiga Kyokai