Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2024

Just incase you thought the sixties were only happening in the United States from a film perspective, change and rebellion was happening everywhere, particularly in Japan. Onibaba shows a very different side from what artists like Kurosawa and Ozu were doing within the confines of a studio system they grew up in. Writer/director Kaneto Shindō may seem at first impression to be working in a more exploitive frame – and you’d be right. But there’s more beneath the surface of this sleazy horror gem that ties in nicely with some of the other films watched during this marathon. As as the “official” capper to the marathon (there’s still the bonus films I’ll cover over on Letterboxd), it’s a fine ending to the start of a new decade of expanding my personal parameters of horror.

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