Adam Pelling-Deeves: Video Production, Oxford – Corporate & Creative

Posted on April 21st, 2017 by Adam Pelling-Deeves

I’ve been getting more and more into both samurai and Japanese ghost films, especially when the two subjects cross-over. The weapons, clothing, traditions and behaviours that are common in these movies make them feel to somebody unfamiliar with these themes, like they belong in the same series of films. Each one has shed a little more light on a cultural aspect that has raised my enjoyment of the others.

Here are my five favourite Japanese supernatural/samurai movies (so far):

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa 1950)
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.

 
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi 1953)
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

 
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi 1964)
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

 
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô 1964)
Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living.

 
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô 1968)
Two women become vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder passing samurai.

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