- HD 1080
- Runtime: 100m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kaneto Shindō
- Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura II, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama
- keywords: samurai, revenge, murder, black cat, ghost, rape and revenge, jidaigeki, folk horror, heian period
- Production_studio: Nihon Eiga Shinsha, Kindai Eiga Kyokai
- Slogan: Beware the haunted women who lurk in the bamboo forest as black cats craving the blood of samurai!
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Kuroneko is featured in the top rankings of 1968
- #1 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1968
- #6 in Top Horror Movies of 1968
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.
