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Kuroneko (1968)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
“Beware what lurks in the bamboo forest craving the blood of samurai!”
Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 1h 40m
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost.
Cast
Kichiemon Nakamura II
Nobuko Otowa
Kiwako Taichi
Kei Satō
Taiji Tonoyama
Rokkō Toura
Hideo Kanze
Eimei Esumi
Chiyo Okada
Crew
- Director
- Kaneto Shindō
- Screenplay
- Kaneto Shindō
- Director of Photography
- Kiyomi Kuroda
- Original Music Composer
- Hikaru Hayashi
- Editor
- Hisao Enoki
- Producer
- Nobuyo Horiba, Kazuo Kuwahara, Setsuo Noto
Details
- Original title
- 藪の中の黒猫
- Release date
- 1968-02-24
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nihon Eiga Shinsha, Kindai Eiga Kyokai