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Onibaba (1964)
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Two women survive wartime Japan by preying on passing soldiers, and the reeds around their hut conceal both danger and opportunity. A demon mask brings a Buddhist fable into a world already warped by hunger and jealousy. Kaneto Shindo makes the grass, percussion and breath feel inseparable from the characters' impulses. Its frank sexuality and harshness remain striking; the older date promises no polite distance.
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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.