Um, well, I can definitely say that 1964’s Onibaba isn’t at all what I was expecting.  And that’s a good thing to be sure.  For 1964, this is a seriously twisted, frank, raw, provocative, and mesmerizing movie.
Set sometime in Japan’s war torn medieval period, we find an old woman (Nobuko Otawa) and her daughter-in-law (Jitsuko [...]