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Availability: Special Order - Usually ships within 3-6 business days. Once you order it, we will order it from our supplier and ship it out to you. We do not bill you for Special Order items until they ship. You cannot cancel Special Order items after purchase. AKA: Devil Woman || The Demon || The Hole || The Ogress || The Witch Director: Kaneto Shindo Released: 1964 [Japan] Genre: Drama     Sub-Genre: Horror Keywords:  Homeless / Impoverished || Japan / Japanese || Murder || Period || Robbers / Robbery || Samurai

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HKFlix Says:	Kaneto Shindo's classic sexually-charged thriller is eerie and disturbing, and highly memorable. Also see 2007's "Far North".
Avg. Rating:	4.5 / 5 (based on 5 ratings). What did you think of it?
Plot:	In order to survive, an impoverished mother and daughter are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, dumping the corpses down a deep, dark hole. But a neighbor soon threaten to destroy the trio's tenuous existence.
Overview:	Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio's tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals the trio's horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo's chilling folktale Onibaba is a singular cinematic experience.
Cast:	Nobuko Otowa  ||  Jitsuko Yoshimura  ||  Kei Sato  ||  Jukichi Uno  ||  Taiji Tonoyama  ||  Somesho Matsumoto  ||  Kentaro Kaji  ||  Hosui Araya (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	103 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese (Dolby Digital 1.0 - Mono)
Subtitles:	ENGLISH
Distributor:	Criterion Collection  [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating:	UN - "Unrated. This film has not been rated by the review board."
Features:	Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Mono Black & White Interviews Behind The Scenes Footage Trailers Stills Gallery Chuck Stephens Essay Director's Statement Restored & Remastered New Subtitles Rare Buddhist Fable DVD-9