Onibaba (1964)
Directors
Onibaba鬼婆
Overview
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.
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Cast
Nobuko Otowa
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kei Satō
Jūkichi Uno
Taiji Tonoyama
Someshô Matsumoto
Kentarô Kaji
Fudeko Tanaka
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Hiroshi Tanaka
Kanzō Uni
Hosui Araya
Michinori Yoshida
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Nobuko Shimakage
Crew
Kaneto Shindō
Kaneto Shindō
Kaneto Shindō
Tamotsu Minato
Hikaru Hayashi
Hisao Itoya
Kiyomi Kuroda
Toshio Enoki
Shigeo Kobayashi
Kaneyasu Masuda
Toshio Miyagawa
Toshiharu Takazu
Yoshio Kurihara
Yoshio Ueno
Mitsuyo Yosoda
Tarō Okamoto
Setsuo Noto
Kazuo Kuwahara
Tetsuya Ôhashi
Toshihiko Sato
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Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
