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Kuroneko
Directed by
Kaneto Shindō
Not Rated
1968
1h 40m
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7.7
96%
85%
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Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
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Cast of Kuroneko
Kichiemon Nakamura II
Gintoki
Nobuko Otowa
Yone
Kiwako Taichi
Shige
Kei Satō
Raiko
Taiji Tonoyama
Farmer
Rokkō Toura
Samurai
Hideo Kanze
Mikado
Eimei Esumi
Subordinate
Shōji Ōki
Subordinate
Kentarô Kaji
Subordinate
Joji Taki
Subordinate
Chiyo Okada
Nehiko
Kaneto Shindō
Director / Writer
Nobuyo Horiba
Producer
Kazuo Kuwahara
Producer
Setsuo Noto
Producer
Kuroneko Ratings & Reviews
Tingera
3d ago
Samurai. Ghosts. Cats. Ghost cats? A ghost story about revenge, and the unintended consequences of seeking it. Kuroneko is staged like a play, filmed like a ballet, and feels like a waking dream. Diving straight in to action and plot in the first scene, there is very little down time and the pacing remains on point throughout. Fascinating facial hair choices, in particular eyebrows. Notable quote: “Mother! Are you a cat or a ghost?” Content warning for rape. 5 stars for beauty, 3 stars for horror, 4 stars overall.
Vague Visages
David Pountain
Kuroneko's otherworldly visuals evoke a reality shaped by great and sinister powers, and a world where fate will always scupper the impudent plans of hubristic men.
The New York Review of Books
J. Hoberman
The movie's implacable sense of poetic justice is only equaled by its graphic smarts.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Gorgeously stylized supernatural folktale revenge film.
Midwest Film Journal
Evan Dossey
An eerie and gorgeous horror film
AV Club
Scott Tobias
With Kuroneko, Shindô obscures the thin line separating the dead from the living-through which spirits, sin, and passion move freely.
DCist
Ian Buckwalter
A masterpiece of quietly creepy Japanese horror.
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
Kuroneko is one of the best supernatural horror tales ever made, and it has tons of spooky atmosphere to spare.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
moves fluidly between the cinematic invisible and the overtly theatrical, mixing impressive tracking shots and dexterous editing with attention-grabbing devices like rear-projection
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Michael Nordine
The relationship between the object of our fear and our comprehension of it might be best described as a sliding scale, and Kuroneko suggests that it is in the realm of the uncanny - of knowing yet not knowing something - that true fear lies.
UR Chicago Magazine
John Esther
Because of the film's look and feel it has developed a sort of cult status and will be greeted voraciously by those who like their films politically reactionary
L.A. Weekly
Michael Atkinson
Shindô's evocation of the central haunted bamboo grove is all night shadows and luminescent mist.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
The combination of moody, widescreen, black-and-white cinematography, an unsettling pace, and chilling, hyperbolic performances makes for the sort of horror film that manages to seem classic and fresh at the same time.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There's a witchy, atmospheric timelessness to the movie that extends well past the unadorned sets.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Cinematographer Kiyomi Kuroda's silvery atmospheric camerawork in "Onibaba" has taken a turn for the theatrical here, with deep shadows and dramatic lighting that serve this story as beautifully as his more naturalistic work in the prior film.
Boston Phoenix
Gerald Peary
With an invidious black cat meowing about, Shindô's movie, elegantly shot in widescreen black-and-white, melds Edgar Allan Poe and Oedipus Rex, all in sight of the legendary Rashômon Gate.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The film morphs into an obsessively regretful dialectic that trips into tragedy after lugubrious, otherworldly speculation.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A ghost story that's more eerie than unnerving, and often hauntingly lovely.
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
Serious movie buffs and die-hard horror fans alike will want to see Kaneto Shindo's elegantly dream-like story of earthbound violence and otherworldly revenge, rooted in Japanese folklore and shot in shimmering, widescreen black-and white.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
expressionistic and hallucinatory
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