SYNOPSIS: 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.
| Gintoki | Kichiemon Nakamura |
| Yone | Nobuko Otowa |
| Raiko Minamoto | Kei Sato |
| Samurai | Rokkou Toura |
| Shige | Kiwako Taichi |
| Farmer | Taiji Tonoyama |
| Mikado | Hideo Kanze |
| Director | Kaneto Shindo |
| Screenplay | Kaneto Shindo |
| Producer | Nobuyo Horiba, Setsuo Noto and Kazuo Kuwahara |
| Cinematography | Kiyomi Kuroda |
| Music | Hikaru Hayashi |
| Production design | Takashi Marumo and Norimichi Ikawa |
| Editing | Hisao Enoki |
| Makeup | Shigeo Kobayashi |
By October 17, 2011
Scratch the surface of a contemporary J-horror classic like Ringu (1998) or any of the Ju-on films (2000–03) and you’ll glimpse Yabu no naka no kuroneko (Black Cat from the Grove), released in the U.S. as simply Kuroneko (1968).
By October 28, 2011
The following is excerpted from a 1972 interview that film scholar Joan Mellen conducted with director Kaneto Shindo. The interview originally appeared in the 1975 book Voices from the Japanese Cinema.
October 22, 2010
Hot on the heels of the hit theatrical run of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s cult sensation House, Janus Films is premiering another unsung Japanese horror movie with a feline twist. Kuroneko (Black Cat), a Read more »
October 28, 2011
Faced with the demonic women of Kuroneko, DVD Town’s Christopher Long at first has only one thing to say: “Wow. And wow.”
