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In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Onibaba:

Nobuko Otowa
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kei Satō
Jūkichi Uno
Taiji Tonoyama
Someshō Matsumoto

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In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. When a samurai wearing a demon mask stumbles upon the older woman at her hut asking her to guide him out of the field, she lures him and he falls in the pit where she drops the bodies of her victims. She climbs down the hole to take his possessions and his mask, and she finds he is a disfigured man. The she uses the demon mask to haunt her daughter-in-law to keep her away from Hachi. However, when she decides to remove the mask, she has a surprise.

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Filmcritic.com - 8/10 by Jake EukerOnibaba shows less interest in laying bare its meanings than in offering the occasion for the viewers' meditations on life, existence (a different thing), and whatever lies below.
Guardian - 8/10 by Peter BradshawOnibaba is a chilling movie, a waking nightmare shot in icy monochrome, and filmed in a colossal and eerily beautiful wilderness.
Total Film - 8/10 by Philip KempUnflinching in its violence and eroticism.
Film4 - 6/10 by Jon FortgangOnibaba graphically illustrates that brutalism, art and allegory can co-exist to spellbindingly powerful effect.
New York Times - 5/10 by A.H. WeilerAlthough his artistic integrity remains untarnished, his driven rustic principals are exotic, sometimes grotesque figures out of medieval Japan, to whom a Westerner finds it hard to relate.
User Review - 10/10 by Patrick DCertainly the most unflinching and taboo film of its era, Onibaba is a monument to Japanese film. Two women living in a highly secluded hut amidst neverending fields, a mother and her daughter-in-law, are delivered the news that the mother's son has been killed in war. Meanwhile, the daughter-in-law begins to covet the bearer of the news, who had fought with her husband, and may or may not have been responsible for his death. Erstwhile, both the mother and daughter-in-law had been killing straggling soldiers to sell their clothes and weapons for food and supplies, dropping them down a hole, which symbolically is more than it seems. One day, a soldier wearing a frightening mask is led to this hole by the mother, who uses the mask as an attempt to scare the daughter away from her suitor. The rest of the film should be left for the viewer to discover. The ending is one of my favorites ever in a film, in that it'll either fill you with a great sense of completion, or turn you off entirely.
User Review - 10/10 by Gavin TSaw this first when i was about 12, it has been seared on my memory ever since
User Review - 10/10 by critice kToo good for the trash soy wars movies we have going on today.
User Review - 10/10 by Kevin MFor Ringu and Ju-On - this is THE scary oriental horror movie. A mother and daughter-in-law combine to ambush tired samurai in the long grass to raise a living until their loyalties are tested and demon mask are introduced. Still terrifying and an inspirational movie.
User Review - 10/10 by Jared CA parable of purgatory. Two women, isolated, living in the tall grass of old Japan. They kill samourai and hawk their gear to a local sage who lives in a cave. There is a hole in the ground, seemingly endless, where they drop the bodies. This is where the dead go to die. And then a man comes, and with the man comes fear, jelousy, lust, greed, and then of course, the mask. This might be the most profound of any horror film I have seen.

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