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Onibaba DVD

Onibaba DVD

Onibaba is a 1964 horror movie based on a Buddhist parable. Directed by Kaneto Shindō, the film is set in rural Japan in the fourteenth century Nanboku-chō period and features Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura as a woman and her daughter-in-law who attack and kill passing samurai, strip them of their valuable armor and possessions, and dispose of the bodies in a deep pit. Read more…