Onibaba

Onibaba

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-02-04

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(9674 Reviews)

Director:

Kaneto Shindè

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

After being forcefully inducted as a soldier into war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon the mask will not come off again. In this disguise she is at first taken for a demon by her daughter.

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