Kuroneko
(DVD)

DVD release of the 1968 motion picture.

Special features include: video interview with director Kaneto Shindo from the Directors Guild of Japan, new video interview with critic Tadao Sato, theatrical trailer, new and improved English subtitle translation, booklet featuring an essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and an excerpt from film scholar Joan Mellen's 1972 interview with Shindo.

880-03,Screenwriter, Shindō Kaneto ; cinematographer, Kuroda Kiyomi ; costume designer, Kobayashi Shigeo ; composer, Hayashi Hikaru ; art director, Marumo Takashi, Igawa Tokumichi ; editor, Enoki Toshio.

880-02,Nakamura Kichiemon, Otowa Nobuko, Satō Kei, Tōra Rokko, Taichi Kiwako, Tonoyama Taiji, Kanze Hideo, Esumi, Eimei, Ōki Shōji, Kaji Kentarō.

In medieval Japan, 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 a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

Not rated.

DVD; Dolby Digital mono.; region 1, NTSC.

Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.