Onibaba

Onibaba is a film Japan board carried out by Kaneto Shindô, left the November 21st 1964.

Synopsis

Whereas the war makes rage, of the peasants survive with difficulty by tracking the Samurai S wounded to complete them and sell their effects at the black-market directed by Ushi. An old woman and her beautiful daughter became expert with this play of massacre and regularly throw the skins of their victims in a deep hole, true mouth of the hell hidden by tall grasses.

Living in waiting of the return of her son, the woman loses any hope when Hashi, a neighbor, returns from the battles and announces that this last fell to the combat. The man will make increasingly pressing advances with the young girl who, against the warnings of her beautiful mother, finishes by him yielding. The despair and sexual frustrations of the old woman will involve the trio in an infernal spiral which no one will not leave unscathed.

Data sheet

Title: Onibaba
Realization: Kaneto Shindô
Scenario: Kaneto Shindô
Production: Hisao Itoya and Tamotsu Minato
Music: Hikaru Hayashi
Photography: Kiyomi Kuroda
Assembly: Kazuo Enomoto
Country of origin: Japan
Format: Black and white - 2,35:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Drama, horror
Lasted: 103 minutes
Coming out date: November 21st 1964
Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

Nobuko Otowa : The woman
Jitsuko Yoshimura: The young woman
Fudeko Tanaka: The old woman
Kei Sato: Hashi
Jukichi Uno : A samuraï
Taiji Tonoyama: Ushi
Somesho Matsumoto
Kentaro Kaji
Hosui Araya

Around film

the mask of demon used in film inspired William Friedkin for her demon which one can see " subliminalement" in the Exorcist (1973).

Rewards

Price of best photography and the female best supporting role (Jitsuko Yoshimura) at the time of the Blue Ribbon Awards 1965.

External bonds

Critiques Cinemasie
Critiques HK Handled

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