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    Onibaba

    Onibaba

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    May 27, 2011

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    Directed by Kaneto Shindo. With Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato
    Japan 1964, 35mm, b/w 103 min. Japanese with English subtitles

    Shindo’s best known film, and original screenplay, is a frightening meditation on avarice and the dark, primordial bonds of family. One of the great jidai-eiki of the Sixties, Onibaba presents a nightmare vision of 16th century rural Japan torn apart by the chaos of perpetual war and famine. The fervent Marxism of Shindo’s early work underlies the dark fable of a sub-proletariat mother and daughter who subsist and survive by murdering desperate samurai in order to sell their arms and armour. The crypic folk tale quality of the film is heightened by the haunting, propulsive score by the little known master composer Hiraku Hayashi and by Shindo’s dramatic use of expressive landscapes.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
        Regular HFA screenings are free for all Harvard students with a valid photo ID.

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        May 27, 2011

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        9pm

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