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

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.

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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)

Trailer

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