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Onibaba (1964)

Onibaba
I'm not a demon! I'm a human being!
—Woman
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Fields of whipping reeds that house an abyss. What emerges? The jazzy paranoia of Hikaru Hayashi’s percussive score jolts one from uneasy contemplation while the frame remains remarkably disciplined, the music allowed to do its job. We see patterns in the wind. There is movement there. And it is chaotic and hungry and wholly uninviting – an opening to the very embodiment of a most fearsome artifact, the Noh mask.

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Title sequence

  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    1960s, live action, main title
Onibaba
  • Film Director

    Kaneto Shindô
  • Release Date

    February 4, 1965
  • Aspect Ratio

    2.35:1
  • Studios

    Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.
  • Country

    Japan
  • Language

    Japanese
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

Article

  • Writer

    Alexander Ulloa
  • Published

    July 23, 2008

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