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    Kuroneko

    Kuroneko

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    May 28, 2011

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    Directed by Kaneto Shindo. With Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
    Japan 1968, 35mm, b/w 95 min. Japanese with English subtitles

    A loose adaptation of a Japanese ghost tale, Kuroneko returns to the war torn medieval Japan of Onibaba to offer a mesmerizing and unnerving revenge story that follows two peasant women transformed by occult forces into bewitching feline demons hunting down the samurai rogues who destroyed their lives and livelihood. Shindo’s extraordinary black and white widescreen cinematography gives a strange beauty to the ruthless acts of cruelty exacted by the women. An only recently rediscovered classic of Sixties Japanese genre cinema, Kuroneko can be read as a radical feminist response to the samurai film.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
        Regular HFA screenings are free for all Harvard students with a valid photo ID.

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        May 28, 2011

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        7pm

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