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Onibaba (1964)
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Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio's tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s...
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Food and sex. Two things that are basic to human survival.
Amidst the tall reeds, both are sought and found in the eerie tale of war-torn Japan.
A mother (Nobuko Otowa) and daughter (Jitsuko Yoshimura) fight for survival by killing wandering samurai and throwing their bodies down a deep hole, selling their armor to a war...
(complete Onibaba review by Movie Addict)
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(3/1/2009)