Kuroneko

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Laura S Favorite Japanese horror movie! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/17/25 Full Review Audience Member Best Samurai horror! Cat monster is really creepy, even if it's a little hard to take seriously at first. Love the sets and costumes too. They don't make movies like this anymore! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/11/24 Full Review Christopher B Filled with atmospheric and beautifully captured B&W widescreen images, Kuroneko is a haunting beauty of a film on Blu-ray. The transfer itself is magnificent, as Criterion worked with the original camera negatives and only added trace amounts of clean up making it look natural and film like. The film itself tells a supernatural story but one also that ultimately tells more of the evil of mankind then of anything other worldly. A beautiful and creepy score accompanies the film and adds to the creepy imagery making for a great night time watch. Enjoyed watching this one with my brother Jon and friend Brad on a breezy and cool night at Brad's home. Highly Recommend this film for not just Horror fans but people looking for a movie with top notch cinematography and direction to go with an eerie story and mood! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/22 Full Review william d The direction and cinematography are excellent, the story not so much. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member An absolute masterpiece. A must-see due to the technical proficiency of lighting and cinematography alone. Aside from that, the movie is also a great companion film to the classic Onibaba. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Tony S A very beautiful and tragic folktale, with very blunt anti samurai themes and little depth. The film basically requires for you to suspend your disbelief and treat plot as a magic realism. Why Gintoki can't recognize his wife and mother faces and then his mother posing as a priest with the same voice? Doesn't matter. Ghost magic. Why Raiko is asking for a proof of a dead ghost? Doesn't matter. He still gets one anyway. Why some of the bodies end up at the burned house of mother and wife, yet no one can connect the dots. Not to mention Gintoki himself. Doesn't matter. For the sake of intrigue of what ghost are going to do, everything is irrelevant. Except the half assed jabs at samurai. Proclaiming their superiority, viciousness and laughing to your face. There are modest good moments in that theme. For example: Gintoki disregards his safety and opens the door for the priest the moment he hears, that Emperor might be upset. Showing that by the end he starting to slowly morph into samurai. And by that, sealing his fate. It is a quality, atmospheric film, but it's not Onibaba because weights heavily into supernatural, asking you to swallow ghost magic or assume everyone is an idiot. Since at least 1/3 of the film takes place in a literal illusion. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/29/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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