Kuroneko poster
Screenplay Kaneto Shindō
Director Kaneto Shindō

Kuroneko

Original Title: 藪の中の黒猫

Tagline: Beware the haunted women who lurk in the bamboo forest as black cats craving the blood of samurai!

Release Date: 1968-02-24

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

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. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

Casting

  • Taiji Tonoyama
    Farmer
  • Kichiemon Nakamura II
    Gintoki
  • Nobuko Otowa
    Yone
  • Kiwako Taichi
    Shige
  • Kei Satō
    Raiko
  • Rokkō Toura
    Samurai
  • Eimei Esumi
    Subordinate
  • Hideo Kanze
    Mikado
  • Chiyo Okada
    Nehiko
  • Shōji Ōki
    Subordinate

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