Onibaba

Director

Kaneto Shindō

Cast

• 

  Nobuko Otowa

  Woman

• 

  Jitsuko Yoshimura

  Young Woman

• 

  Kei Satō

  Hachi

• 

  Jūkichi Uno

  The Samurai

• 

  Taiji Tonoyama

  Ushi

• S

  Someshō Matsumoto

  Runaway Warrior

• K

  Kentarô Kaji

  Runaway Warrior

• 

  Fudeko Tanaka

  Old Woman

Plot overview

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.