Onibaba [videorecording] = Demon woman / Kindai Eiga Kyōkai sakuhin ; seisaku: Hisao Itoya, Setsuo Noto, Tamotsu Minato ; orijinaru shinario, kantoku: Kaneto Shindō = Janus Films ; A kindai Eiga Kyokai production ; produced by Hisao Itoya, Setsuo Noto, Tamotsu Minato ; original screenplay by Kaneto Shindo ; directed by Kaneto Shindo.

An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.

Bibliographic Details

Corporate Authors:	Kindai Eiga Kyōkai, Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Shindō, Kaneto, 1912-2012 (Director, Screenwriter), Itoya, Hisao (Producer), Noto, Setsuo (Producer), Minato, Tamotsu (Producer), Otowa, Nobuko, 1924-1994 (Actor), Yoshimura, Jitsuko, 1943- (Actor), Satō, Kei, 1928-2010 (Actor), Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988 (Actor), Tonoyama, Taiji, 1915-1989 (Actor), Kaji, Kentaro (Actor), Araya, Hosui (Actor), Hayashi, Hikaru (Composer)
Other title:	Demon woman. Janus Films.
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2004]
Edition:	Widescreen.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 226.
Subjects:	Japan > Drama. Samurai > Drama. Murder > Drama. Feature films. Horror films. Fiction films. Samurai films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.