Onibaba - Criterion Collection
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Black & White
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 04 February, 1965
DVD Release : 16 March, 2004 |
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Onibaba - Criterion Collection description
A curse hangs over Kaneto Shindo's primal Japanese classic like a looming storm cloud, but the supernatural has got nothing on the desperation and savagery of the human animal trying to survive the horrors of war. In 16th-century Japan, a hardened middle-aged woman and her young daughter-in-law have turned predator to survive, murdering the soldiers wh ... review details
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When the Devil Comes
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| An oni is a demon. The demon in this story takes on the form of a malevolent Noh mask, and the twilight-zonish tale of terror is one of the most bone-chilling things I've ever seen on film. Briefly, the marshlands of war-ravaged Japan during the era of feuding warlords has become briefly inhabited by displaced people, principally a middle-aged woman and her widowed dauighter, reduced to living on an animal level. They have become low-life, predatory scavangers who murder lost samurai in order to steal their property and sell it for food on the black market. Trouble starts when a man known to the women begins secretly meeting the daughter for passionate encounters, and the mother tells her that the devil will get her for her sins, and seeks to terrorize her into chastity by masquerading as a swamp demon. It goes without saying that it all leads to disaster of a most grotesque kind. Very chilling and horrific in it's eerie black-and-white with a nightmarish use of light and shadow that only thre B&W media can achieve. I recommend it to sit right next to your Twilight Zone collection, along with other classics of this kind. |
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