Horror Films of Kaneto Shindo - Onibaba and Kuroneko // DC Classics

In this Dark Corners Classic we turn our attention to Japanese writer and director Kaneto Shindo and his two horror films Onibaba, Kuroneko.

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Kaneto Shindo directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Kamei and Tadashi Imai.

Onibaba summary: In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. When a samurai wearing a demon mask stumbles upon the older woman at her hut asking her to guide him out of the field, she lures him and he falls in the pit where she drops the bodies of her victims. She climbs down the hole to take his possessions and his mask, and she finds he is a disfigured man. The she uses the demon mask to haunt her daughter-in-law to keep her away from Hachi. However, when she decides to remove the mask, she has a surprise.

Kuroneko summary: A group of samurai breaks in the house of the peasants Yone and her daughter-in-law Shige to loot their food and they kill the women. The burn their house to the ground and a black cat licks their corpses. Soon the women returns as ghosts posing as geisha and Shige lures samurais late night at Rajômon asking for protection through a bamboo grove. She brings the samurai to a fancy house that is indeed her burnt-out house; introduces her mother; seduces the samurai and kill him tearing his neck apart. Meanwhile a warrior kills a powerful enemy and severs his head. He is summoned to Rajômon by the samurai Raiko that makes him samurai and he tells that his name is Gintoki. Then he finds his house destructed and looks for Yone and Shige and he learns that they are missing. Gintoki is assigned by Raiko to destroy the ghosts that are killing samurais. What will happen when Gintoki discovers that the ghosts are Yone and Shige?

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Written by & starring Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Edited by Graham Trelfer
Dark Corners Classics: Episode 5

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