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Nobuko Otowa - what members say

Onibaba review by from Doncaster, England.

Grass, Sex & Violence 3 March 2007
...al form. The 'Demon Hag' of the title refers to an old peasant woman played by Nobuko Otowa, the director's wife and muse. Together with her daughter-in-law (19 year old J... Read customer review

Nobuko Otowa - filmography

Kuroneko on DVD (1968)
Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Certificate:
Based on the Japanese folktale 'The Cat's Return'. Having been raped and murdered, a mother and daughter return from the dead in order to gain revenge...

67% from 807 members

Onibaba on DVD (1964)
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Certificate:
A mother and daughter-in-law scrape a living in 16th Century Japan by killing warriors and selling their armour.

73% from 1,617 member

Naked Island on DVD (1960)
Starring: Masanori Horimoto, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Certificate:
Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago...

70% from 393 members

Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama (2 discs) (1953)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Certificate:
Ugetsu Monogatar: Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari [Tales of the Rain and Moon] is a highly acclaimed masterwork of Japanese cinema. Based on a pair of 18th century ghost stories by Ueda Akinari. Amidst the pandemonium of civil war, potter Genjuro (Mori Masayuki) and samurai-aspirant Tobei (Ozawa ..read more »

74% from 982 members
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Nobuko Otowa facts

5 most recent films

Kuroneko - 3.5 stars
Onibaba - 3.5 stars
Naked Island - 3.5 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars
Onibaba - 3.5 stars
Naked Island - 3.5 stars
Kuroneko - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Kuroneko - 3.5 stars
Naked Island - 3.5 stars
Onibaba - 3.5 stars
Ugetsu Monogatari / Oyu-Sama - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Taiji Tonoyama - 1 times - show films
Yuji Hori - 1 times - show films
Masanori Horimoto - 1 times - show films
Machiko Kyo - 1 times - show films
Kiwako Taichi - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kaneto Shindo - 3 times - show films
Kenji Mizoguchi - 3 times - show films

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