Kuroneko (1968) on Netflix
Yone and her daughter-in-law Shige are raped and killed by samurai. The women come back as ghosts who lure warriors to their deaths. Gintoki, made a samurai, is ordered to destroy them.
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Plot summary
A troop of samurai breaks into a house in a bamboo grove, seizes the food stored there and attacks the two women inside. Yone and her daughter-in-law Shige are raped and killed, and the dwelling is set on fire. A black cat comes and licks at their bodies. The women return as ghosts in the likeness of elegant ladies. They wait at Rajōmon, meet samurai on their way back from the war and lead them to a mansion in the grove that is not really there, where the men's throats are torn open. Word of these killings reaches the governor, Minamoto no Raikō. In the north, a young man named Gintoki brings Raikō the severed head of an enemy general and is made a samurai for it. Raikō orders him to find the ghosts and destroy them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kuroneko (1968)
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- Kuroneko was selected to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival never happened: it was cancelled because of the events of May 1968 in France.
- Among Kuroneko's theatrical effects are spotlights and smoke used to create a ghostly atmosphere, dance movements for the mother's spirit based on Noh theatre, and flying that resembles chūnori, the kabuki trick that lifts actors through the air on wires.
