Onibaba (July 22 at 9:55 p.m. and July 23 at 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[ONIBABA screens Friday July 22nd at 9:55 pm and Saturday July 23rd at 5 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.)

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.


See these reeds? ONIBABA is like that, and more.
In the favorite of my many part-time jobs, I arrive at work adjacent to a stand of reeds, just over head-height, constantly undulating in the wind. I've stared at the ever-rustling fronds obsessively and even filmed them, probably because of my psychological scarring from early exposure to this 1964 samurai horror tale from director Kaneto Shindo.