Onibaba

Onibaba - tappajat / Gripen. JP 1964. PC: Tokyo Eiga, Toho Eiga, Kindai Eiga Kyokai. D+SC+AD: Kaneto Shindo. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda - b&w - Tohoscope. M: Hikaru Hayashi. Starring Nobuko Otowa (woman), Jitsuko Yoshimura (young woman), Kei Sato (Hachi), Jukichi Uno (samurai). 103 min. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 8 April 2008. - A print with good definition of light. - I saw the beginning only of this stark jidai-geki with remarkably forceful stylization in image and sound.