Onibaba

I across this film Onibaba and it sure is interesting! You have two Hot Amazons killing Samurai and stealing their weapons and armour. Then things get complicated when a man comes into the picture and a Love Triangle apparently forms. Too bad it's a Downer Ending that entails Kill Em All.

Boy, that must have been a Crapsack World at the time the movie depicts!

Have we been raiding the foreign film section?

I’ve still never seen this film, in spite of being fascinated by it forever.

And yet, I’ve seen Woman in the Dunes. Never again!

Why not? Japanese stuff is pretty fascinating to me. It's also difficult to get information on some of their works, probably because some people have to go through the process of translating between Japanese and English to get the information. At least this website will have that information up on display where anyone can find it!

60s Japanese Horror rules. Been meaning to check this and Kuroneko out for a while. I have Kwaidan DVR'd, which is nice. :3

Onibaba - I remember! It was done in B&W and dated from about 1960, as I recall. I saw it on BBC 2 one Saturday evening when I was about thirteen - BBC 2 , by Act of Parliament, had to show at least one subtitled foreign film every Saturday. This was a big change from the usual French or Scandiwegian film they showed in the Subtitled Foreign Movie slot and the first Japanese thing I'd ever seen. (I might never have seen it f I hadn't been alone in the house. To explain, my family's WW 2 was largely fought in the Far East and all things Japanese were consequently loathed and reviled in our house; several family members had died as guests of the Emperor Hirohito between 1941-45.)

But that night I stayed in minding house... and, wow, total nudity? In a film dating from 1960? When comparable British and American movies refused to beleive pubic hair existed and the female nipple was a thing to be shunned forever?

not a bad story, too... a useful introduction to a people with a completely different way of seeing the world, and a realisation that these people might be more than just the shouting screaming sadists beating up British prisoners on the River Kwai, or the enemy other family members remember shooting at in places like Imphal, where capture or surrender had ceased to be options and the only thing to do was to fight and kill Japs.

edited 13th Jun '12 7:40:47 AM by AgProv