Kuroneko (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Director Kaneto Shindo scored a massive international success with his 1964 film Onibaba, but when his 1968 follow-up Kuroneko (using some of the same facets of the story from the previous film) passed along almost unnoticed internationally, his reputation suffered a hit that took some time to mend. Kuroneko is an erotic ghost story, alternately gruesome and romantic and mysteriously haunting. It’s not a gore fest certainly, and the erotic elements are quite tastefully done, but it leaves the viewer with an unsettling sense of melancholy at its conclusion and is not an easy movie to forget.

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