Kuroneko (1968)
- Original title
- 藪の中の黒猫
- Directed by
- Kaneto Shindō
- Genre
- horror film, ghost film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 230 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In feudal Japan, a woman and her daughter-in-law are killed by samurai. They return as vengeful spirits who lure samurai into a bamboo grove and kill them.
eeriehauntingatmosphericslow-burnmelancholicvisually lushunsettlingtragic
What happens
Kuroneko (藪の中の黒猫, Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko; "A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove"; or simply The Black Cat) is a 1968 Japanese jidaigeki horror film directed by Kaneto Shindō, and an adaptation of a supernatural folktale. Set during a civil war in feudal Japan, the film's plot concerns the vengeful spirits, or onryō, of a woman and her daughter-in-law, who are raped and murdered by a band of samurai. It stars Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, and Kiwako Taichi. Kuroneko was shot in black-and-white and in TohoScope format, and distributed by Toho. It was not dubbed in English, but was released with subtitles in the United States in 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
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Kwaidan (1964)
The Living Skeleton (1968)
Curse of the Blood (1968)
The Pit of Death (1968)
Harakiri (1962)
Illusion of Blood (1965)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.