Onibaba

Year: 1964

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kaneto Shindô

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While her son Kichi fights abroad, a mother and her daughter‑in‑law survive in a swamp by ambushing stray samurai and selling the loot. The news of Kichi’s death devastates them, and the daughter‑in‑law begins an affair with the surviving neighbor Hachi. The mother, jealous and angry, tries to frighten her with a mask from a dead samurai.

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