Onibaba

Onibaba

  • Director: Kaneto Shindô
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Release date: February 4, 1965
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Onibaba - Die Töterinnen
  • Onibaba is a horror film directed by Kaneto Shindo and co-starring Otowa Nobuko and Otowa Nobuko. 
    The film tells the story of Japan's Nanboku-chō period, when wars continued and people were displaced. The story of a pair of notarial certificate to prove living in the grassy plains, hunting stragglers and stripping their armor for food.

    Details

    • Release date February 4, 1965
    • Filming locations Japan
    • Production companies Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

    Movie reviews

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    • By Luigi 2022-03-24 09:03:48

      Jumping and running like a female beast in the night

      I went to buy a disc in the evening, and saw Kanto Shindo's "Haunted Wife" again. After hesitating, I bought it. I watched his "Nude Island" not long ago, and I didn't like it very much, but I felt familiar in a trance. The reciprocating melody in the movie, the silhouette of the heroine swaying under the bright sky, the monotonous, conceptual plot, the dullness without a single line of dialogue, are all in Awaken the memory. In the Cold War years, "The Naked Island" was probably considered a...

    • By Adela 2022-03-24 09:03:48

      hag

      Kanto Shindo really wants to be called a master. It is simpler than the black cat, but the metaphors are more and more complicated. This is called the drama movie scene. The characters are extremely simplified. It seems that the actual space is closed. Click to stop the girl running in the reeds The scene repeats the montage of the samurai camel girl ghost in the black cat, the rotten wood and the sexual suggestion of the phallus; the reeds fluttering in the wind symbolizes the intertwined...

    • By Aaliyah 2022-03-23 09:03:28

      Sex, the original motivation of human beings——Analysis of the film "Haunted"

      This film is a typical formalist film work by director Shindo. At the beginning of the film, there is a black hole in the middle of the screen, followed by the subtitle "hole". Through this kind of reminder, the audience seems to be in a state of thinking from the beginning, and the title of the film is the rapid drum sound and the mournful horn. The outgoing, dissonant tones created an uneasy and eerie atmosphere. So far, we have been able to perceive the director's form of interest....

    • By Angela 2022-03-15 09:01:11

      A sample of social human sexuality

      The mother-in-law's acting skills are very good, and her eyes are fierce and direct. In contrast, the daughter-in-law's eyes have no content, but they are also suitable for the role.

      It is easy to kill people in the reeds, and society breaks down, but there are still some of the most basic ethics and social norms, such as the relationship between relatives, not eating people, etc., this part has not collapsed; ", this part started to shatter.

      social system

      sex

      These...

    • By Marge 2022-03-15 09:01:11

      September 3 at the French Film Archive

      On the third night of moving to Paris, I wanted to go to a random movie. The manual of the archive says "Onibaba" at 9 o'clock. After reading the introduction, I thought it was a horror film, and then I read the film review, saying that it was a description of dark human nature, and I became interested. After watching it, I feel that the name "Haunted" may make the film lose many viewers who don't like watching horror movies. Maybe it would be better to call it "Mask"?

      I have always...

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    • By Barton 2023-08-23 23:03:13

      There is a kind of illusion that the climax has been spoiled by the teacher and has always been a horror movie. However, after watching it completely today, I found that there is no such shock at...

    • By Irma 2023-06-29 01:56:26

      From the opening scene of the reeds with the incongruous jazz music, it points out the aesthetic and sensory feast that the film attempts to give people a conflict. Compared with the director's previous work "Black Cat", every character in the story is unpleasant. Ironically, even the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have their own evil results because of "eating sex and sex". It is a dangerous political situation, in order to...

    • By Zella 2023-06-10 11:43:08

      I never thought that human nature could be exposed so thoroughly. You can have no regrets about killing people and stealing goods, but you are frightened by the demon who blocks your desires. The old woman is not afraid of people or ghosts. Her small body hides terrifying things, but she has an unusual desire for beauty. (The end is a bit off-level. I didn’t expect that Japan still has such a powerful director who is unknown. It can only be said that it is unfortunate to live in the same era as...

    • By Zion 2023-01-14 21:32:48

      The rippling reeds, the ugly people's hearts, everything is just forced by life. If the last big hole means human nature, the daughter-in-law must not be able to cross...

    • By Kacie 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      In 1988's "Red Sorghum", the naked sexual impulse in the sorghum field; in 2012's "White Deer Plain", the wind blows the wheat waves and the incestuousness; the original is not as good as 1964's "Haunted", the bottom of human nature in the reeds. Greed and desire. Really...

    Movie plot

    One night, the young soldier Eight ( Kei Satô ) returns from the battlefield to tell his mother-in-law ( Otowa Nobuko ) that her son is dead and stay to live with the notarial certificate to prove . Hachi keeps teasing his daughter-in-law (Miko Yoshimura), and finally one night, the daughter-in-law desperately runs to Hachi's residence, and the two are twisted together...
    The mother-in-law was afraid that her daughter-in-law would leave...
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    Movie quotes

    • Woman: Want to sleep with me?

      Hachi: [laughs] An old woman like you?

      Woman: Stupid! I'm not old on the inside. Come on. Try me.

    • Kichi's Wife: Isn't it heavy?

      Woman: No. Not very.

      Kichi's Wife: Shall I go along too?

      Woman: No, I'll go by myself.

      Kichi's Wife: But, it'll be night when you return.

      Woman: Once it's dark, it can't get any darker.

    • Woman: It's punishment from Buddha.

      Hachi: There is no Buddha.