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2 July 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

When watching the opening scene of Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo's “almost” horror and visceral fable on jealousy and death, we are introduced to the hole. A gaping natural well amongst a field of tall susuki grass in rural 14th century Japan. It's an ominous and a masterful set up of the mystery to come and, right before the drums and horns of Hikaru Hayashi Taiko drum soundtrack blow you into another dimension, it is both unsettling and beautiful. An unnamed woman and her daughter-in-law are surviving in a small cabin within the grass by hunting cowardly shogun who have fled the front-line of an unseen war. The pair sell the weapons and armor of the murdered to a local lecherous tradesman and dump the bodies down the dark hole in the grass as they await the return of their only son/husband from the battlefield. Their life's everyday moments pivot on »

- Neil Innes

1 article from 2009