After great pain: The uses of religious folklore in Kenji Mizoguchi’s SANSHO THE BAILIFF (JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s ONIBABA (JP 1964)

• Main Author: NG, Teng-kuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Buddhism and Film; Japanese Cinema; Kaneto Shindo; Kenji Mizoguchi; Onibaba; Religious Folklore; Sansho the Bailiff; Asian Studies; Film and Media Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/141; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1140/viewcontent/Ng__Teng_Kuan_After_Great_Pain_pvoa_cc_by_nc.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article studies the adaptations and applications of religious folklore in two mas-terworks of Japanese cinema: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff, JP 1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s Onibaba (JP 1964). While academic approaches will often draw a strict line between narrative genres and...