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Kuroneko
藪の中の黒猫
Directed by Kaneto Shindo
1968•1h 39m•NR•★ 7.7
Horror
Synopsis
In feudal Japan, a mother and daughter-in-law brutally raped and murdered by wandering samurai make a pact with an underworld black cat spirit, returning as vengeful apparitions who lure samurai to their spectral bamboo grove mansion to tear out their throats, until the woman's surviving samurai son is sent to destroy them. Kaneto Shindo's poetic, eerie ghost horror classic.
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Cast & Crew
DirectorKaneto Shindō
WriterKaneto Shindō
CinematographyKiyomi Kuroda
MusicHikaru Hayashi
Principal Cast
Kichiemon Nakamura IIGintoki
Nobuko OtowaYone
Kiwako TaichiShige
Kei SatōRaiko
Taiji TonoyamaFarmer
Rokkō TouraSamurai
Hideo KanzeMikado
Eimei EsumiSubordinate
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Runtime1h 39m (99 mins)
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DirectorKaneto Shindo
LanguagesJapanese
CountryJP
StudioKindai Eiga Kyokai • Toho
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