Kuroneko - The Masters of Cinema Series [15] Blu-ray

Kuroneko - The Masters of Cinema Series

eBay\n\nView our Store\n\nAdd to Favourite Stores\n\nAction\nAnimation\nAnime\nComedy\nDrama\nFantasy\nHorror\nSci-Fi\nThriller\n\nVideo specialists since the days of VHS!\n\n\u00A9\nEureka Entertainment Ltd.\n\nKuroneko Blu-Ray\nKaneto Shindo's Kuroneko (Yabu no naka no kuroneko, or The Black Cat Inside the Bamboo Grove) - released to great acclaim in 1968 - is a sparse, atmospheric horror story, ascribing to the director's philosophy of using beauty and purity to evoke emotion. Eccentric and more overtly supernatural than its breakthrough companion piece, Onibaba, Kuroneko revisits similar themes to reveal a haunting meditation on duty, conformity, and love.\n\nIn this magnificently eerie and romantic film - loosely based on the Japanese folktale The Cat's Return - a mother and daughter-in-law (Nobuko Otowa and Kiwako Taichi) are raped and murdered by pillagers, but return from the dead as vampiric cat spirits intent on revenge. As the ghosts lure soldiers into the bamboo groves, a1