Onibaba - Criterion Collection
by Kaneto Shind?
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Actor: Jitsuko Yoshimura, Jukichi Uno, Kei Sato, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji TonoyamaDirector: Kaneto Shind?
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Kiyomi Kuroda
Writer: Kaneto Shind?
Editor: Toshio Enoki
Producer: Hisao Itoya
Producer: Kazuo Kuwahara
Producer: Setsuo Noto
Producer: Tamotsu Minato
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Onibaba - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: ALLOW ME TO BE FRANK...BUY MoC INSTEAD OF CRITERION.
Summary: 2 Stars
The features on Criterion disc is almost horrible. Not only the image quality is not good as expected, but also the special features are not superior to other editions. Just buy the EUREKA MoC editions #13. The EUREKA one included all features on Criterion disc, and besides, a bonus booklet and ALEX COX introduction. The image quality was more proper for a dual-layer disc.
Summary of Onibaba - Criterion Collection
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 chilling folktale, Onibaba, is a singular cinematic experience.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
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