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Kuroneko (1968)
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A mother and daughter-in-law return as vengeful spirits in a bamboo grove after brutal wartime violence. Kaneto Shindo turns a ghostly encounter into a conflict between intimate loyalty and the demands of a warrior hierarchy. The floating movement and luminous black-and-white spaces give revenge an eerie grace. Sexual assault shapes the story, but the film's sympathy stays with women whom the surrounding order has discarded.
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In the Sengoku period, 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 an Onryō ghost.