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    Hiroshi Tanaka

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    Horse Riding Samurai B

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    Onibaba 1964 POSTER

    Onibaba

    1964

    Japanese

    7.8

    ♡ 38

    90%

    90%

    Action

    bamboo hut

    desertion

    Drama

    hold-up robbery

    Horror

    japan

    jealousy

    samurai

    Thriller

    Kaneto Shindô Kaneto Shindô Director Hiroshi Tanaka Hiroshi Tanaka as Horse Riding Samurai B Nobuko Otowa Nobuko Otowa as Kichi's Mother Kentarô Kaji Kentarô Kaji as Runaway Warrior B Jûkichi Uno Jûkichi Uno as Samurai General
    While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
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