I have never watched anything quite like “Kuroneko,” a visually stunning adaptation of an old Japanese folktale about wronged women getting their revenge from beyond the grave. Two women, Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and Shige (Kiwako Taichi), live alone in a bamboo grove while Hachi (Nakamura Kichiemon II) — Yone's son and Shige's husband — is at war. A roving band of soldiers happens upon them, brutally rapes and murders them, and burns down their hut.
No Sleep October: Kuroneko (1968)
No Sleep October: Kuroneko (1968)
No Sleep October: Kuroneko (1968)
I have never watched anything quite like “Kuroneko,” a visually stunning adaptation of an old Japanese folktale about wronged women getting their revenge from beyond the grave. Two women, Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and Shige (Kiwako Taichi), live alone in a bamboo grove while Hachi (Nakamura Kichiemon II) — Yone's son and Shige's husband — is at war. A roving band of soldiers happens upon them, brutally rapes and murders them, and burns down their hut.