# Kuroneko (1968)

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**Original title**: *藪の中の黒猫*
**Runtime**: 100 min
**Genres**: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
**Directed by**: Kaneto Shindō
**Written by**: Kaneto Shindō
**Starring**: Kichiemon Nakamura II, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Satō, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkō Toura

> *Beware what lurks in the bamboo forest craving the blood of samurai!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Moonlit mountain pass winter snow crunching under horse hooves a lone samurai helmet. A woman and daughter brutally slain by soldiers their bodies left in a burned-out hut. Kaneto Shindō brings feudal Japan horror in a single eerie scene.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, slow-burn

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