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4.1
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Criterion Channel HBO Max Amazon Channel Max trailer
Runtime: 105 min.
Status: Released
Certification: NR

Onibaba (1964)

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.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Keywords: tmdb.jealousy, tmdb.samurai, tmdb.hold-up-robbery, tmdb.bamboo-hut, tmdb.murder, tmdb.survival, tmdb.demon + 56 more, tmdb.14th-century, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.grass, imdb.demonic-mask, imdb.masked-man, imdb.demon-mask, imdb.robbing-the-dead, imdb.dumping-a-body-in-a-pit, imdb.living-in-a-hut, imdb.sneaking-out-at-night, imdb.tall-grass, imdb.topless-woman, imdb.mystery-man, imdb.running-through-grass, imdb.hole, imdb.hole-in-ground, imdb.death-of-son, imdb.mother-in-law-daughter-in-law-relationship, imdb.sex-scene, imdb.naked-outdoors, imdb.yard, imdb.masked-woman, imdb.pretending-to-be-a-demon, imdb.ruse-gone-wrong, imdb.freudian, imdb.crow, imdb.swimming-across-a-river, imdb.fetching-water, imdb.katana, imdb.human-skeleton, imdb.cut-hand, imdb.villain-as-protagonist, imdb.killing-an-animal, imdb.abrupt-ending, tmdb.desertion, imdb.mask, imdb.folk-horror, imdb.female-serial-killer, imdb.female-protagonist, imdb.japanese-new-wave, imdb.mysterious-stranger, imdb.disfigured-face, imdb.morality, imdb.feudal-japan, imdb.running, imdb.folktale, imdb.death-of-husband, imdb.14th-century, imdb.nudity, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.ambiguous-ending, imdb.black-and-white, mdblist.fresh, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, tmdb.sengoku-period, imdb.female-topless-nudity
Production companies: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.
poster

Onibaba (1964)

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.

82
81
7.9
/21905/
77
/402/
76
/371/
4.1
/44535/
90
/20/
Audience
90
/5700/
Criterion Channel HBO Max Amazon Channel Max trailer
Runtime: 105 min.
Released: Nov. 21, 1964
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 15+

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