Onibaba (鬼婆) DVD 1964 Demon Hag / Directed by Kaneto Shindo / Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama / Művész Filmklub / Black&White

UPC 5999886089085

REGION 2 BLACK & WHITE PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: Japanese 1.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Runtime: 98 minutes

Japanese Summary:

新藤兼人が監督したこの映画は仏教説話が元になっており、14世紀の日本の田舎の村が舞台になっている。 乙羽信子と吉村実子が主演を務めており、彼女たちの演じる役は通りかかった侍を殺して、彼の身につけているものをすべて剥いで死体を深い穴へ捨てる女とその義理の娘である。

千葉県栄町の印旛沼の葦ヶ原にプレハブ小屋が建てられ、スタッフ全員がそこへ3ヶ月間合宿して撮影が行われた。

乙羽は、全裸での演技も体当たりでこなしたが、陰毛までフィルムに映ってしまった。監督である新藤は、「猥褻ではない」とカットを拒んだものの、結局カットされてしまったという。

題字は岡本太郎による。

English Summary:

Onibaba (鬼婆, lit. Demon Hag) is a 1964 Japanese historical drama horror film written and directed by Kaneto Shindo. The film is set during a civil war in the fourteenth century. Nobuko Otowa and Jitsuko Yoshimura play two women who kill soldiers to steal their possessions, and Kei Satō plays the man who ultimately comes between them.

The film is set somewhere in Japan, in the mid-fourteenth century during a period of civil war. Two wounded soldiers flee from pursuers on horseback in an enormous field of thick reeds which are taller than a man. Suddenly the soldiers are killed with spears by unseen assailants. Two women appear, take the soldiers' armour and weapons, and drop the bodies in a deep hole. The women return to a small hut and rest, exhausted from the activity. The next day they take the armor and weapons to a merchant named Ushi (Taiji Tonoyama) and trade them for food. The merchant tells them news of the war, which is driving people across the country to desperation. As they leave, Ushi makes a sexual proposition to the older woman, who rebuffs him. A neighbor named Hachi (Kei Satō), who has been at war, returns. The older woman (Nobuko Otowa) asks Hachi about her son, Kishi, who was forced to be a soldier along with Hachi. Kishi is the husband of the younger woman (Jitsuko Yoshimura). Hachi tells about his experience in two fights, where general Takauji Ashikaga attacked his division. He says that he and Kishi deserted. Later, Kishi was killed when they were caught stealing food from farmers, while Hachi barely escaped. The older woman warns the younger woman to stay away from Hachi, whom she blames for her son's death.

Hungarian Summary:

A japán film nagy korszakának világhírű darabja.
A háború elembertelenítő hatását példázó kegyetlen rémmese a középkorban játszódik, a belső háborúk idején. Egy magára maradt fiatalasszony és anyósa abból élnek, hogy szamurájokat ölnek meg, értéktárgyaikat ellopják. A gyönyörű fiatal nő szerelembe keveredik egy szökött katonával, s ezzel kivívja anyósa gyűlöletét, féltékenységét.
Az ember alatti lét kíméletlen, szenvtelen ábrázolása naturalizmussal, misztikummal és erotikával vegyül.

Cast / Szereplők / スタッフ:

• Nobuko Otowa as Older Woman
• Jitsuko Yoshimura as Younger Woman
• Kei Satō as Hachi
• Taiji Tonoyama as Ushi
• Jūkichi Uno as The Masked Warrior