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Kwaidan (1965)

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi

Horror | Fantasy | Drama

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

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. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior’s reflection in his teacup.

Length 183 minutes

Actors

Michiyo Aratama | Misako Watanabe | Rentarô Mikuni | Kenjiro Ishiyama | Ranko Akagi | Fumie Kitahara | Kappei Matsumoto | Yoshiko Ieda | Otome Tsukimiya | Kenzô Tanaka | Kiyoshi Nakano | Tatsuya Nakadai | Keiko Kishi | Yûko Mochizuki | Kin Sugai | Noriko Sengoku | Akiko Nomura | Torahiko Hamada | Jun Hamamura | Katsuo Nakamura | Tetsurō Tamba | Takashi Shimura | Yoichi Hayashi | Eiko Muramatsu | Kunie Tanaka | Kazuo Kitamura | Ichirô Nakatani | Masanori Tomotake | Tokue Hanazawa | Shizue Natsukawa | Shin Tatsuoka | Makiko Kitashiro | Masakazu Kuwayama | Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru | Akira Tani | Yôsuke Kondô | Kiyoshi Yamamoto | Kinji Omino | Atsuo Nakamura | Ginzô Sekiguchi | Akio Miyabe | Gen'ya Nagai | Toru Uchida | Hikaru Jinno | Toshio Fukuhara | Kirô Abe | Toshiro Yagi | Yuriko Abe | Yuri Satô | Kyôichi Satô | Nobuo Aikawa | Taiji Kodama | Nobuaki Maeda | Teruhiko Shibata | Haruo Kaji | Michio Gina | Seiji Tabe | Mitsuko Narita | Noriko Mikura | Aiko Nagayama | Michiko Nakahata | Kan'emon Nakamura | Osamu Takizawa | Haruko Sugimura | Noboru Nakaya | Seiji Miyaguchi | Kei Satō | Shigeru Kôyama | Jun Tazaki | Junkichi Orimoto | Akiji Kobayashi | Yoshirô Aoki | Isao Tamagawa | Hideyo Amamoto | Ganjirô Nakamura

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Viewing Notes

It’s been ages since I watched this so I streamed it on Cathode TV while debugging code. So damn good. The set designs are mesmerizing.

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