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Onibaba - Criterion Collection dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Art Home » Local » Japanese » Classics/Old Japanese • Drama Japanese • Comedy Japanese • Action/Adventure Japanese • Samurai Films Japanese • General Onibaba - Criterion Collection buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $7.96 Features • Anamorphic • Black & White • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 04 February, 1965 DVD Release : 16 March, 2004 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours 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 who wander into the sea of pampas grass surrounding their hut and selling their weapons for rice. When their war-deserter neighbor returns home and makes his moves on the young woman, their numb equilibrium is complicated by greed, jealousy, and lust. The consequences are terrible and not exactly surprising, but they are gripping. Shindo's unnerving close-ups, bobbing handheld camerawork, and soundtrack of pounding drums and howling flutes gives Onibaba a queasy intensity. Shooting in stark black and white, he makes even the waving of the grass look ominous as it all but swallows everyone who enters. --Sean Axmaker Onibaba - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ ONCE AGAIN CRITERION DOES NOT DISSAPOINT! A Japanese period HORROR about two women,a mother and a daughter-in-law who kill deserting soldiers and sell their armor for $$$ and throwing the bodies into a nearby pit. When the younger woman falls in love with one of their potential victim's the older uses a HIDEOUS mask to scare the soldier away. The plan backfires HORRIBLY,however when the mask gets stuck to the mother's face forcing her daughter in law to smash it revealing............... Beautifully done,with SHARP photography and EERIE scenes of the women luring soldiers to their doom through the tall,wavering weeds. This is a great HORROR story! And am proud that Criterion has released this in a BEAUTIFUL transfer. I use to own the Connoisseur VHS copy and that was grainy. For those who love Criterion(cough! you know who you are!)or those who love a good GHOST story check this Lil Gem out!   1     2     3   Non User