Lost in Criterion

Spine 226: Onibaba


Listen Later

Ok, so Pat doesn't like scary movies, but the Japanese horror films we've seen so far have been something else entirely. Kwaidan, for instance, was a more a collection of folk tales that happened to have ghosts involved.

Similarly, Kaneto Shindo's 1964 film Onibaba isn't much of a horror film, though it's not exactly a folk tale, either. More of the story of the "true" inspiration that became the folk tale of the "Demon hag", though Pat takes some umbrage with translating "baba" as "hag" because, really, who uses the word hag anymore?

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Lost in CriterionBy Lost in Criterion

  • 2.9
  • 2.9
  • 2.9
  • 2.9
  • 2.9

2.9

48 ratings


More shows like Lost in Criterion

View all
The Next Picture Show by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson & Scott Tobias

The Next Picture Show

786 Listeners

The Plot Thickens by TCM

The Plot Thickens

5,120 Listeners