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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.
Cast View all
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Kichiemon Nakamura | Gintoki |
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Nobuko Otowa | Yone (Mother) |
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Kei Sato | Raiko |
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Rokko Toura | A Samurai |
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Kiwako Taichi | Shige (Daughter-in-Law) |
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Taiji Tonoyama | A Farmer |
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Hideo Kanze | Mikado |
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Hideaki Esumi | |
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Shôji Oki | |
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Kentaro Kaji | |
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Masaru Miyata | |
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Noriyuki Nishiuchi | |
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Eishu Kaneda | |
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Jôji Taki | |
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Miyako Kasai | |
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Kayoko Sebata | |
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Chiyo Okada | |
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Harumi Hirota | |
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Yoshiko Uchi |
Crew
| Director | Kaneto Shindo |
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| Writer | Kaneto Shindo | |
| Producer | Nobuyo Horiba, Kazuo Kuwahara, Setsuo Noto | |
| Musician | Hikaru Hayashi | |
| Photography | Norimichi Igawa, Kiyomi Kuroda | |
Personal
| Quantity | 1 |
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| Seen | |
| Added Date | Jan 11, 2023 15:26:06 |
| Modified Date | Jun 25, 2024 17:12:15 |
Edition details
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
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| Audio Tracks | LPCM Mono [Japanese] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Oct 18, 2011 |
Notes
Christmas 2022 gift from the Welch family.
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. From Kaneto Shindo, director of the terror classic Onibaba, Kuroneko (Black Cat) is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale with a shocking feminist angle, evoked through ghostly special effects and exquisite cinematography.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Video interview with director Kaneto Shindo from the Directors Guild of Japan
New video interview with critic Tadao Sato
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and an excerpt from film scholar Joan Mellen’s 1972 interview with Shindo
New cover by Sam Smith and Eric Skillman