Onibaba

Onibaba

🎞️ Movie 103 min JP
โ˜… 7.8 /10 1964

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

In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. When a samurai wearing a demon mask stumbles upon the older woman at her hut asking her to guide him out of the field, she lures him and he falls in the pit where she drops the bodies of her victims. She climbs down the hole to take his possessions and his mask, and she finds he is a disfigured man. The she uses the demon mask to haunt her daughter-in-law to keep her away from Hachi. However, when she decides to remove the mask, she has a surprise.

Cast

Nobuko Otowa
Nobuko Otowa
Kichi's Mother
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kichi's Wife
Kei Satô
Kei Satô
Hachi
Jūkichi Uno
Jūkichi Uno
Samurai General
Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama
Ushi
๐Ÿ‘ค
Someshô Matsumoto
Runaway Warrior A
๐Ÿ‘ค
Kentarô Kaji
Runaway Warrior B
๐Ÿ‘ค
Hosui Araya
Ushi's Follower
๐Ÿ‘ค
Fudeko Tanaka
Old Woman
๐Ÿ‘ค
Michinori Yoshida
Samurai with Blood
Hikaru Hayashi
Hikaru Hayashi
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Kiyomi Kuroda
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

ONIBABA Original Theatrical Trailer (Masters of Cinema)
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Trailer
ONIBABA Original Theatrical Trailer (Masters of Cinema)
Shooting Onibaba with Kaneto Shindo
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Featurette
Shooting Onibaba with Kaneto Shindo
Francis Galluppi on ONIBABA
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Featurette
Francis Galluppi on ONIBABA