Onibaba Trailer

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Onibaba, made in 1964, is a great Japanese horror film although horror isn't probably the first thing you'd think of as you watch it. Creepy is the word. First of all, let me say here that the grass that surrounds the simple huts that the characters live in is the real scary entity in this film. It is a sea of the toughest, highest, most windblown grass that will really play with your mind. It crackles with an evil energy all its own! The music is very good, resembling the music from the film Planet Of The Apes (original 1968 one with Heston). I'd almost say that composer Jerry Goldsmith seen this film and borrowed a little to score the music for Planet Of The Apes!

The story unfolds with two women, one older, one younger, who kill tired warriors for their armor and weapons as the warriors pass through their grassy, swampy home. Then they dump the bodies in an ancient hole in the ground. They have to survive by selling the gear to a black market operator named Ushi. When a soldier named Hachi shows up at the hut of the women one night, explaining that the old woman's son and the young girl's husband died in battle, the old woman doesn't think too much of Hachi for running away and surviving! Soon, romance blossoms between Hachi and the young girl which sweeps away her original grief. Of course, the old lady doesn't think too much of this, so she makes some plans that will stop the nightly visits between the two and it involves a strange samurai mask......!

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• Released: 2/4/1965
• Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Senshô Matsumoto
• Directed By: Kaneto Shindô
• Running Time: 103 min
• Motion Picture Association Rated: Unrated
• Film Company: Kindai Eiga Kyokai

	The two women try to sell war gear to the powerful Ushi.
A strange Samurai warrior passes by one night, lost in the grass, and seeking the path out.
	The old woman leads him to the ancient hole where he falls to his death. She's looking at his wonderful armor that she knows she will sell.
The demon in the grass.
	The price of deception.