Empire of Silence
Renowned composer Toru Takemitsu brought his own brand of sonic fear to the soundtracks of many genre highlights from the Japanese New Wave.
Onibaba
The opening images of Kaneto Shindo’s exquisite, dread-drenched, medieval Japan–set Onibaba (1964) are overlaid with telegraphic fragments of text: “THE HOLE. DEEP AND DARK…”