Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- samurai
- revenge
- murder
- black cat
- ghost
- rape and revenge
- jidaigeki
- folk horror
- heian period
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Taiji Tonoyama — Farmer
- Rokkō Toura — Samurai
- Hideo Kanze — Mikado
- Eimei Esumi — Subordinate
- Shōji Ōki — Subordinate
- Kentarô Kaji — Subordinate
- Joji Taki — Subordinate
- Chiyo Okada — Nehiko
- Miyako Kasai
- Kayoko Sebata
- Harumi Hirota
- Directed
- Kaneto Shindō
- Written
- Kaneto Shindō
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 232 ratings
- Studio
- Nihon Eiga Shinsha, Kindai Eiga Kyokai
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
