Kaneto Shindo

Now, the next one I'm gonna recommend is a Japanese film that kind of I watched in a time when I wasn't really watching much foreign cinema.

Directed by Kaneto Shindo.

Hope that I pronounced that correctly.

It's streaming on Amazon Prime and BFI Player, so that's double the chance to watch it.

It turns out that the film I thought that I had seen, that I actually have seen, is The Seven Samurai, which is not Onibaba at all.

Anyway, this one is directed by Kaneto Shindo, also written by that director.

Great film.

Such a good premise.

Um, there, there's a few that I like.

There's a couple by Kaneto Shindo, specifically from, from the 1960s.

Um, uh, Onibaba and Kuroneko.

To be honest, I have just seen a, recently saw a, a, a trailer for s- for a game called, like, Suzumi Kaidan or something like that.

No.

Um, that's...

It's, it's a, it's a similar Kaneto Shindo ti- kind of, um, jidai-geki type movie.

But it's set amongst, like, a bamboo grove a lot of the time, and there's these sort of ghostly women luring samurai-