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Onibaba

Cast

Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sat?, J?kichi Uno View All


Crew

Kaneto Shind? (Director) View All

Release: Nov. 21st, 1964
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
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Iroquois
From there, the film becomes something of a slow-burning psychological drama that revolves around the three characters' relationships with one another - the fisherman makes several advances on the younger woman while the older woman, who cannot maintain the operation without the younger woman, inten....
pahaK
A woman and her daughter-in-law live in a small hut in the middle of a huge reed field.


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