Kuroneko = Yabu no naka no kuroneko
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.

Special features: Interview with director Kaneto Shindō; Interview with film critic Tadao Sato; Theatrical trailer. Booklet features essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and an exerpt from film scholar Joan Mellen's 1972 interview with Shindo.

880-03,Screenwriter, Shindō Kaneto ; cinematography by Kuroda Kiyomi ; music by Hayashi Hikaru ; production design by Takashi Marumo and Norimichi Ikawa ; edited by Enoki Toshio ; costume designer, Kobayashi Shigeo ; art director, Marumo Takashi, Igawa Norimichi.

880-02,Nakamura Kichiemon, Otowa Nobuko, Satō Kei, Toura Rokuhiko, Taichi Kiwako, Tonoyama Taiji, Kanze Hideo, Esumi Hideaki, Ōki Shōji, Kaji Kentarō.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

DVD format; Dolby Digital mono.; region 1, NTSC; aspect ratio 2.35:1; "enhanced for 16 x 9 widescreen TVs."

Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.