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  • Luigi 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    Jumping and running like a female beast in the night

    I went to buy a disc in the evening, and saw Kanto Shindo's "Haunted Wife" again. After hesitating, I bought it. I watched his "Nude Island" not long ago, and I didn't like it very much, but I felt familiar in a trance. The reciprocating melody in the movie, the silhouette of the heroine swaying...

  • Adela 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    hag

    Kanto Shindo really wants to be called a master. It is simpler than the black cat, but the metaphors are more and more complicated. This is called the drama movie scene. The characters are extremely simplified. It seems that the actual space is closed. Click to stop the girl running in the reeds...

  • Aaliyah 2022-03-23 09:03:28

    Sex, the original motivation of human beings——Analysis of the film "Haunted"

    This film is a typical formalist film work by director Shindo. At the beginning of the film, there is a black hole in the middle of the screen, followed by the subtitle "hole". Through this kind of reminder, the audience seems to be in a state of thinking from the beginning, and the title of the...

  • Angela 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    A sample of social human sexuality

    The mother-in-law's acting skills are very good, and her eyes are fierce and direct. In contrast, the daughter-in-law's eyes have no content, but they are also suitable for the role.

    It is easy to kill people in the reeds, and society breaks down, but there are still some of the most basic ethics...

  • Marge 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    September 3 at the French Film Archive

    On the third night of moving to Paris, I wanted to go to a random movie. The manual of the archive says "Onibaba" at 9 o'clock. After reading the introduction, I thought it was a horror film, and then I read the film review, saying that it was a description of dark human nature, and I became...

  • Georgianna 2022-03-14 14:12:31

    "The Witch" in "The Director's Talk"

    The screenwriter and director of this film, Kento Shindo, is a famous Japanese playwright and director after the war. In the early days, he was mainly engaged in the creation of movie scripts, such as "Anjo Family Ball", "Temptation", "Angel's Face" and other excellent films in the 1950s....

  • Linnea 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    Onibaba: Woman, Human, Demon

    Onibaba: Woman, Human, DemonThe mysterious history of the Northern and Southern Courts, the romance of the war between the shogun Ashikaga Takauji and emperor Go-Daigo, and the legendary headless king… reenacted with aesthetic beauty and literary interest in Tanizaki's “Yoshino kuzu,” the Sengoku...

  • Deja 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    People are not like people, ghosts are not like ghosts

    The sense of picture of the old film is strong, the eyes of the two women are really sharp and can't be sharper, and they also draw black eyeliner.     In the society at that time, war was the most terrifying. For the sake of power and status, the king could requisition the males at will, but the...

  • Danielle 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    "Haunted": Pushing open the door of illusion and entering the aesthetic realm of Yuling's revenge

    In 1960, Kanto Shindo's "Naked Island" came out. This "silent" film chose the simplest narrative mode, but brought the tension of audio-visual language to the extreme. For many fans, this is the best way to experience the aesthetics of Shindou Kanto's images. But for director Shindou Kanto himself,...

  • Lacy 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    Mortar in the Reeds

    Because of the age, this movie is definitely not as shocking as it was back then.   However, as a former member of the Allied Powers, Japan, which has launched many wars of aggression, has always desired peace for most people. In the film, the director used a number of metaphors of the transition...

Onibaba

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Language: Japanese Release date: February 4, 1965

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