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Kwaidan. (film) Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. 'Ghost Stories') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn 's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named.
Kwaidan: Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. With Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama. A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Masaki Kobayashi
- 1965-11-22
Kwaidan is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that collects several Japanese folktales and legends of the supernatural, as well as essays on the symbolism and culture of insects. The book was adapted into a 1964 film by Masaki Kobayashi.
Kwaidan is a 1965 film by Masaki Kobayashi, based on four folktales by Lafcadio Hearn. It features colorful and surreal sets, luminous cinematography, and haunting music by Toru Takemitsu.
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Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortal...
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Kwaidan is a horror anthology with narrative design that seems to have been composed straight from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe - less superficially gruesome, more eerie and unsettling.
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- Horror, Fantasy
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost.
