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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

13. Onibaba (1964). It's striking how unsentimental about the past arthouse jidaigeki are. This starts off similarly to Kuroneko, (also directed by Kaneto Shindou!) with two women trying to ride out a war in feudal Japan, but it goes in a very different, mostly more naturalistic direction.

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• Japanese movie poster for Onibaba. The upper half of the older woman's face fills the top of the poster, overlooking a field of tall grass shown at a smaller scale. In the foreground, the younger woman and the neighbor laugh and fool around. In the middle distance, the samurai wearing an oni mask.