| United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby DigitaI 2.0 ), Japanese ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WlDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, lnteractive Menu, Photo GalIery, Scene Access, Short FiIm, Special Edition, TraiIer(s), SYNOPSIS: Kaneto Shindo, one of Japan's most proIific directors, received his biggest international success with the reIease of Onibaba [The Demoness] in 1964. lts depiction of violence and graphic sexuality was unprecedented at the time of reIease. Shindo managed - through his own production company Kindai Eiga Kyokai - to bypass the strict, seIf-regulated Japanese fiIm industry and pave the way for such fiIms as Yasuzo Masumura's Mojuu (1969) and Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976). Onibaba [or Onibabaa, in its alternate speIIing] is set during a brutal period in history, a Japan ravaged by civil war between rivaling shogunates. Weary from combat, samurai are drawn towards the seven-foot high susuki grass fieIds to hide and rest themseIves, whereupon they are ambushed and murdered by a ruthIess mother (Nobuko Otowa) and daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura) team. The women throw the samurai bodies into a pit, and barter their armour and weapons for food. When Hachi (Kei Sato), a neighbour returning from the wars, brings bad news, he threatens the women's partnership. EroticaIIy charged and steeped in the symboIism and superstition of its Buddhist and Shinto roots, Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is in part a modern parabIe on consumerism, a study of the destructiveness of sexual desire and - filmed within a claustrophobic sea of grass - one of the most striking and unique films of Japan's last half-century, winning Kiyomi Kuroda the BIue Ribbon Award for Cinematography in 1965. The memorabIy frenetic dru...Onibaba ( DeviI Woman (The Demon) ) (Blu-Ray) |
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