ONIBABA (1964) Dir: Kaneto Shindo - CINEMIN movie review

Certain films surprise us for very unusual reasons and perhaps it would be in this category that I’d like to place the great Japanese film by director Kaneto Shindo from 1964, Onibaba. One of the most interesting and intelligent psychological drama/horror movies that I remember having the pleasure of watching. The story beautifully filmed in black and white and widescreen format, tells the story takes place in Japan centuries ago. It’s about Kichi (a character we’ll never see) that left for the war, leaving behind his mother and his wife, who live in terribly poor conditions of absolute misery and poverty in an inhospitable swampy area. With very few resources available, the basis for the support and survival of these women becomes spying and murdering samurai, who happen to pass through this little known area and strip them of their armor and weapons, dispose of the cadavers in a very deep black hole in the middle the intense bush that dances suddenly according to the wind, perhaps announcing with th