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Kuroneko
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.
1968 · Directed by Kaneto Shindō · 100 min · Drama · Fantasy · Horror · 31 frames
Tagline
Beware what lurks in the bamboo forest craving the blood of samurai!
Crew
- Screenplay: Kaneto Shindō
- Cinematography: Kiyomi Kuroda
- Edited by: Hisao Enoki
- Music: Hikaru Hayashi
- Produced by: Kazuo Kuwahara, Setsuo Noto, Nobuyo Horiba
Cast
- Kichiemon Nakamura II as Gintoki
- Nobuko Otowa as Yone
- Kiwako Taichi as Shige
- Kei Satō as Raiko
- Taiji Tonoyama as Farmer
- Rokkō Toura as Samurai
- Hideo Kanze as Mikado
- Eimei Esumi as Subordinate
- Shōji Ōki as Subordinate
- Kentarô Kaji as Subordinate
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Nihon Eiga Shinsha, Kindai Eiga Kyokai
- Themes: samurai, revenge, murder, black cat, ghost, rape and revenge, jidaigeki, folk horror, heian period
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