LUMI Masquerade: Onibaba

Schedule

Sun May 26 2024 at 06:00 pm

Location

Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast | Belfast, NI

From one of Japan’s most prolific directors, Kaneto Shindô’s chilling folktale Onibaba conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses.
Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate.
Erotically charged and steeped in the symbolism and superstition of its Buddhist and Shintô roots, Onibaba is in part a modern parable on consumerism, a study of the destructiveness of sexual desire and one of the most striking and unique films of Japan’s last half-century.
You’re invited to the LUMI Masquerade, a season of films that peeks behind the masks, literal and metaphorical, we all wear. Through a selection of 6 films chosen entirely by LUMI Programmers, we’ll explore what masks conceal and reveal.

Where is it happening?

Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast, United Kingdom
Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast

Host or Publisher Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast

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