Onibaba (1964)
鬼婆
"The most daring film import ever...From Japan!"
Critics Score
🎬 90%
(RT: 90%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Nobuko Otowa as Woman
Jitsuko Yoshimura as Young Woman
Kei Satō as Hachi
Jūkichi Uno as The Samurai
Someshō Matsumoto as Runaway Warrior
Kentarô Kaji as Runaway Warrior
Fudeko Tanaka as Old Woman
Is Onibaba good?
Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
