Filmography from Nobuko Otowa

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Yabu no naka no kuroneko, Kaneto Shindô, 1968
A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight. ...

Onibaba, Kaneto Shindô, 1964
After being forcefully inducted as a soldier into war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon the mask will not come off again. In this...

Sekai daisensô, Shûe Matsubayashi, 1961
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon....