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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Smiling Shinobi
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Set in feudal Japan and made back in 1964, Onibaba is a film that still haunts me today. Two desperate women, a young woman and her mother in law scratch out a desperate life in a small hovel situated in a huge field of 7' tall susuki grass. As a massive civil war rages in the background (there are no battle scenes, just the distant noises of battle) the women prey on wounded samurai who have stumbled from the battlefield seeking a hiding place in the susuki grass, they kill the wounded and strip them of their armour and weapons to sell to a weaponsmith who lives nearby in exchange for food. After the women have stripped the bodies, they dump them in a hugh black (seemingly bottomless pit) near where they live. One day a friend of the mother in laws son and the young womans husband returns from the war to tell them he had been killed and sets up a camp to live nearby. The sexual tension between the young woman and the friend is obvious and much to the displeasure of the mother in law. As time passes the mother in law begins to realise that her daughter in law is sneaking through the long grass at night to have sexual encounters with her sons friend. She confronts the friend and begs him to stop, pleading with him that if her daughter in law leaves her for him, she will not be able to trap and kill the wounded samurai herself and will starve. So desperate is she she throws herself at him, he bitterly rejects her and she is left dejected and desperate in a state of rage. Then one day, the old woman stumbles across the corpse of a huge hulking samurai who wears a terrifying white ivory demon mask instead of a helmet. She removes the mask and is repulsed by the hideous scarred face of the man underneath (we don't actually see his face), she initially thinks the mask will be valuable but then as she stares at the hideous thing a plot hatches in her mind. It is night and the young daughter in law is running through the swaying grass to meet her lover, then suddenly out of the darkness looms the hideous face of a demon robed in white, the terrified young woman retreats screaming back to the hovel. The old woman tells her the demon must have heard about her indiscretions and has been sent to warn her to stop. The young woman can't help herself however and she ventures out the following night to meet her lover, again the demon looms out of the darkness and the young woman is sent screaming back to her mother in law. Finally the young woman packs her things and sneaks through the grass to be with her lover for good fearful of the demon reappearing, when she gets to his campsite she finds he has been brutally murdered. She runs in despair back to her hovel, to find her mother in law crouched in the corner screaming and wailing, she seems to be wearing a long white robe for some reason, the old women turns around screaming to reveal she is wearing the demon mask !, it has been her all along hiding in the tall grass trying scare her daughter in law, but something is wrong. The mask won't come off it seems to have attached itself to her face, she realises that the samurai she took it from wasn't scarred the scarring occured when she prised the mask off his face taking his flesh with it. The daughter shocked and inconsolable runs screaming into the grass her mother in law chasing after her screaming and begging for help to remove the mask, as they run wildly into the darkness they both fall in the pit screaming. I saw this film on TV about 10 years, and saw it again recently, it is unlike any film I have seen before or since and it certainly leaves an impression ! Attachment: (Downloaded times) Last edited on 11:50 am by cynicalninja |
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Britt Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Learning Contentment
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Wow! I love foreign films, Japanese especially, and I must check this film out. Have you seen "Grave of the Fireflies"? You MUST see it, O Ninja One.
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CARLA Original500© Member  Aloha San Diego is Paradise.!!
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Oh yes I have seen it as well, it is very haunting. I remember thinking I don't want to watch this but I couldn't stop watching it. Ninja you recap the movie so well there were things I really didn't understand when I watched it but now I do. 
Last edited on 05:15 am by CARLA Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up worn out screaming what a ride.. |
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shirohniichan Original500© Member  Obscurius per obscurum
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Britt wrote: Wow! I love foreign films, Japanese especially, and I must check this film out. Most depressing cartoon ever made!
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Aethelred Pioneer100© Member  Ye Olde Dead King
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Ninja, after reading what you wrote I must see that film!
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Aethelred wrote: Ninja, after reading what you wrote I must see that film! He is an instigator of the highest degree, something akin to a day old mosquito bite. Hating the itch but soothing the scratch by inflamming it with the flick of a fingernail.  ..............I bet it cost like 300.00 on line to rent it!
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shirohniichan Original500© Member Obscurius per obscurum
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Aethelred wrote: Ninja, after reading what you wrote I must see that film! Moi, auch! Too bad I've already filled my Netflix limit for the month and my wife has suspended my selection privileges. She didn't like me renting "Creature Comforts", but my 7-year old and I thought the shows were hilarious.
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