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Status: IN-STOCK
Released: 2004-03-16

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Onibaba DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama

Director(s): Kaneto Shindo

Features:
New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions
New video interview with writer/director Kaneto Shindo
Rare Super-8 black-and-white and color footage provided by actor Kei Sato, shot on location during the filming of Onibaba
Original trailer
Stills gallery featuring production sketches and promotional art
New essay by Chuck Stephens, noted critic and scholar of Asian cinema
Filmmaker's statement from Kaneto Shindo
Rare English translation o
Onibaba DVD Details
Video:
Cinemascope
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono
Language:
japanese
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 103
Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle] Horror Sci-fi
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 037429185827
Product Code: CRRNONI030DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1964
Studio: Criterion
Onibaba DVD Summary A landmark in fantasy cinema, this lyrical ghost story is set in medieval Japan amid a bloody conflict between rival fiefdoms.

While the warrior Kichi's impoverished wife (Jitsuko Yoshimura) and mother (Nobuko Otowa) wait for his return from battle, they maintain a humble existence by luring lost soldiers into the surrounding fields of tall grass and murdering them in order to sell their armor and weapons for food; the bodies are then disposed of in a deep cavern.

After learning that her son has been