the horror of war and the horror of untrammeled market forces combine in a nightmarish vision of humanity bestialised.
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08/02/07
Onibaba (1964)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: From the mind of Kaneto Shindo comes ONIBABA, a haunting folk nightmare.In medieval Japan, a peasant woman and her daughter stay alive by murdering stray soldiers and selling their armor for food. ... [More]
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One of the absolute peaks of atmospheric black-and-white horror.
04/14/07
Top CriticToo often, it turns out to be a pot-pourri of ravenous eating and blatant sex.
04/14/07
Top CriticNo masterpiece by any means, it's at times overplayed, but it's striking visually, handling swift horizontal movement very well. It's also genuinely erotic.
01/26/06
Top CriticNo review available.
09/29/05
Although his artistic integrity remains untarnished, his driven rustic principals are exotic, sometimes grotesque figures out of medieval Japan, to whom a Westerner finds it hard to relate.
05/10/05
Top CriticClassic. Shows less interest in laying bare its meanings than in evoking the viewers’ meditations on life, existence (a different thing), and whatever lies below.
07/09/04
Interesting as a claustrophobic vision.
03/31/04
Time enough has passed to qualify the uniquely spare look of Onibaba classic
03/18/04
Onibaba graphically illustrates that brutalism, art and allegory can co-exist to spellbindingly powerful effect.
05/24/03
A creepy, interesting, and visually striking 1963 feature by Kaneto Shindo.
01/01/00
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