Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

A little known masterpiece:

Ever since I saw this movie in the late 60's, Kaneto Shindo's economy of means to make such a great film was what most impressed me. A swamp and its surrounding reeds, and a dilapidated hut, conform the stage on which an old woman and her daughter-in-law survive as scavengers of the spoils of war that ravages feudal Japan, while their loved one is away fighting. A returning samurai enters into the picture, and the young daughter-in-law starts to have second thoughts about her fidelity to a husband who may... more info

Good Karma Bad Karma:

Onibaba is a very serious film that probe into your basic conscience. In a deserted village in feudal Japan when wars were fought meaninglessly and food was scarce, life came to basic forms. How could two woman peasants survived? They did it my killing ronins, samurai deserted from wars, and selling their outfits for food (Anybody who have learnt kendo know that these kind of outfit is expensive). So the two women knew the easy way out as these outfits were of short supply as for food.

But what about the... more info

vacuous adoration -- the death trap of a bad movie:

There is much to say of my surprise at the shimmering reviews this pathetic second rate Japanese movie has received here on Amazon. It is this very incongruency that compelled me to interject a grain of lucidity into this vat of oily adulation. Let's be honest about it -- the movie is horrendous, has very little artistic value, unless you consider the very repetitive shots of the pampas rustling in the wind to be art, and a mundane plot. The only virtues possessed by this flick are its obscurity and er... more info

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