Onibaba is set during a brutal period in history, a Japan ravaged by civil war between rivaling shogunates. Weary from combat, samurai are drawn towards the seven-foot high susuki grass fields to hide and rest themselves, whereupon they are ambushed and murdered by a ruthless mother (Nobuko Otowa) and daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) team. The women throw the samurai bodies into a pit, and barter their armour and weapons for food. When Hachi (Kei Sato), a neighbour returning from the wars, brings bad news, he threatens the women's partnership. Erotically charged and steeped in the symbolism and superstition of its Buddhist and Shinto roots, Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is in part a modern parable on consumerism, a study of the destructiveness of sexual desire and — filmed within a claustrophobic sea of grass — one of the most striking and unique films of the last century, winning Kiyomi Kuroda the Blue Ribbon Award for Cinematography in 1965. The memorably frenetic drumming soundtrack was scored by long-time Shindo collaborator Hikaru Hayashi. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this major work in all its newly restored glory for the first time on DVD in the UK.
Spezifikation
- Medium
- DVD
- Darsteller
- Kei Sato, Nobuko Otowa
- Regisseur
- Kaneto Shindô
- Sprache
- Japanisch (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- Untertitel
- Englisch
- Produktionsjahr
- 1964
- Spieldauer
- ca. 100 Minuten
- DVD Features
- Audiokommentar, Einführung von Alex Cox, Kinotrailer, 24-seitigem Booklet
- Bildformat
- 2,35:1 (anamorph / 16:9)
- Veröffentlichung
- 22.08.2005
- Originaltitel
- Onibaba
- Herstellungsland
- Japan
- Verpackung
- Keep Case (Amaray)
- Regionalcode
- 2 (Europa)
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