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Kuroneko
Why this pick
Shindô’s eerie companion piece shares Onibaba’s folkloric dread, elemental black-and-white imagery, and sensual tension, turning medieval hardship into a poised, haunting ghost story.
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MOVIE1964 1h 45m JPN
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Kwaidan
Why this pick
For the same encounter between Japanese folklore and grave beauty: its patient, ritualistic supernatural tales build unease through stylised colour, sound, and fatalistic atmosphere.
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Woman in the Dunes
Why this pick
Like Onibaba, it traps desire and survival inside an unforgiving landscape, using tactile imagery and a spare, escalating situation to create near-mythic anxiety.
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The Sword of Doom
Why this pick
Its severe black-and-white violence and bleak fatalism offer a similarly unsentimental vision of feudal Japan, where human cruelty seems inseparable from the surrounding darkness.
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Jigoku
Why this pick
This feverish Buddhist horror shares Onibaba’s moral darkness and period-inflected dread, but pushes its visions of guilt and punishment into more overtly surreal territory.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is set somewhere in Japan, in the mid-fourteenth century during a period of civil war.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nobuko Otowa
Woman
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Young Woman
Kei Sato
Hachi
Jūkichi Uno
The Samurai
Taiji Tonoyama
Ushi
Someshô Matsumoto
Runaway Warrior
Kentarô Kaji
Runaway Warrior
Fudeko Tanaka
Old Woman