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Shindo’s Onibaba
Murderers, marauders and macabre at the Japan Society
Onibaba at the Japan Society
A nefarious mother and her young daughter-in-law are nestled in an endless sea of reeds during the war-ravaged days of 16th century Japan.
As stray soldiers and lost samurai wander into the wilderness surrounding their hut, the women trap and murder the men selling their war gear for rice and dumping the corpses down a deep pit.
When their rough and rugged neighbor returns from war, conflicting ferocious passions threaten to shatter the women’s sinister partnership, and soon… the newly formed trio’s precarious cohabitation.
Intensely erotic, Shindo’s Onibaba is both a macabre parable on modern-day consumerism, and a morality play on the dark power of primal desires.
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