A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the 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 a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.... (Full plot summary below)
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A woman and her daughter-in-law are raped and murdered by samurais during the 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 a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
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| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyWith an invidious black cat meowing about, Shindô's movie, elegantly shot in widescreen black-and-white, melds Edgar Allan Poe and Oedipus Rex, all in sight of the legendary Rashômon Gate. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordCinematographer Kiyomi Kuroda's silvery atmospheric camerawork in "Onibaba" has taken a turn for the theatrical here, with deep shadows and dramatic lighting that serve this story as beautifully as his more naturalistic work in the prior film. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThere's a witchy, atmospheric timelessness to the movie that extends well past the unadorned sets. |
| UR Chicago MagazineJohn EstherBecause of the film's look and feel it has developed a sort of cult status and will be greeted voraciously by those who like their films politically reactionary |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinKuroneko is one of the best supernatural horror tales ever made, and it has tons of spooky atmosphere to spare. |
| DCistIan BuckwalterA masterpiece of quietly creepy Japanese horror. |
| CineVueDaniel GreenHikaru Hayashi [crafts an] endlessly unsettling score, an organic blend of seemingly discordant percussion and eerie gusts of woodwind that feels as much a part of the bamboo grove as the malevolent phantoms that lurk within. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonNippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outrage... Kaneto Shindô's Kuroneko may take the cake. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMichael NordineThe 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. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickmoves fluidly between the cinematic invisible and the overtly theatrical, mixing impressive tracking shots and dexterous editing with attention-grabbing devices like rear-projection |
