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Onibaba

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Videodisc release of the 1964 Japanese motion picture.
Series from container.
Special features: new video interview with writer/director Kaneto Shindo, rare footage provided by actor Kei Sato, shot on location during the filing of Onibaba, original trailer, stills gallery featuring production sketches and promotional art, new essay by Chuck Stephens, filmmakers statement from Kaneto Shino, rare English translation of the original Buddhist fable that inspired the film.
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Sensho Matsumoto, Kentaro Kaji, Hosui Araya.
An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then they dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.
DVD, new high-definitional digital transfer with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions.

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SERIES
Criterion collection
226.


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Homevision, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780027841 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shindō, Kaneto, 1912-
Otowa, Nobuko, 1924-
Yoshimura, Jitsuko.
Sato, Kei, 1928-
Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988.
Tonoyama, Taiji, 1915-1989.
Matsumoto, Sensho.
Kaji, Kentaro.
Araya, Hosui.
Kuroda, Kiyomi.
Enoki, Kazuo.
Hayashi, Hikaru, 1931-
Home Vision (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Samurai -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Japanese language materials.
Japan -- Drama.
Foreign films -- Japan.
Horror films -- Japan.
Motion pictures, Japanese.