Kuroneko (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Beware the haunted women who lurk in the bamboo forest as black cats craving the blood of samurai!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kichiemon Nakamura & Kei Satô | |
Directed by | Kaneto Shindo | |
Screenwriting by | Kaneto Shindo | |
Composition by | Hikaru Hayashi | |
Director of Photography: | Kiyomi Kuroda |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Kuroneko is one of the best supernatural horror tales ever made, and it has tons of spooky atmosphere to spare.
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Scene-Stealers.com
Rating: A- --
Gorgeously stylized supernatural folktale revenge film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
moves fluidly between the cinematic invisible and the overtly theatrical, mixing impressive tracking shots and dexterous editing with attention-grabbing devices like rear-projection
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/4 --
There's a witchy, atmospheric timelessness to the movie that extends well past the unadorned sets.
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Boston Globe
Nippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outrage... Kaneto Shindô's Kuroneko may take the cake.
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Village Voice
4 stars out of 5 -- [A]n anti-war statement filled with doomed longing...
Total Film
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.
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Product Description:
Set in feudal Japan, this atmospheric and violent ghost story (whose title literally translates as THE BLACK CAT IN THE BUSH) begins with the brutal murder of two women by a band of mercenary samurai, whose leader is subsequently tracked down, seduced, and murdered by a young woman possessed by the shape-shifting specter of his victim. Called upon to avenge the warrior's death is none other than the woman's former husband, who has been ordered by his superiors to assassinate the guilty party. Plot twists abound as the older, vengeful spirit seeks to exact poetic justice despite the younger ghost's reluctance to destroy the man who once loved her. Though not on the epic level of KWAIDAN or ONIBABA, this adaptation of an ancient folk tale benefits from the same cultural richness, as well as a touch of social allegory.
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