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Onibaba

1964 · 105 min · Horror

The most daring film import ever...From Japan!

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Vincent CraneResident

That tall susuki grass becomes a living thing, swaying through shadows so deep they seem to swallow the wretched souls hiding within. Kaneto Shindō stages a demon-mask sequence of such terror that Boris Karloff himself would have risen to applaud. The moonless dark does half the haunting and never once asks for thanks. A savage little parable, lean as a blade. 8 skulls.

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