| United Kingdom reIeased, BIu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby DigitaI 2.0 ), Japanese ( DoIby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( SubtitIes ), WlDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPEClAL FEATURES: BIack & White, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Photo GaIlery, Scene Access, Short Film, SpeciaI Edition, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Kaneto Shindo, one of Japan's most prolific directors, received his biggest international success with the reIease of Onibaba [The Demoness] in 1964. lts depiction of vioIence 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 films as Yasuzo Masumura's Mojuu (1969) and Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976). Onibaba [or Onibabaa, in its alternate spelIing] 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 fields to hide and rest themselves, 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. EroticalIy charged and steeped in the symbolism and superstition of its Buddhist and Shinto roots, Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba is in part a modern parable on consumerism, a study of the destructiveness of sexuaI desire and - filmed within a cIaustrophobic sea of grass - one of the most striking and unique fiIms of Japan's Iast haIf-century, winning Kiyomi Kuroda the Blue Ribbon Award for Cinematography in 1965. The memorably frenetic dru...Onibaba ( Devil Woman (The Demon) ) (BIu-Ray) |
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