ONIBABA: A Dark Mirror Revisited
Kaneto Shindo’s horror/drama masterpiece Onibaba (or Devil Woman), is a film that reels you in from the get-go. Much like Hikaru Hayashi’s cacophonous soundtrack of drums, horns, shrieks, and guttural yells that beautifully accompanies the film, Onibaba itself can be seen as a discordant mixture of realism that culminates into a masterful collage. » ….