KWAIDAN

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• Release Year: 1964
• Genre: Fantasy, Horror
• Plot: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States.
• Cast: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô 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, Tetsurô Tanba, 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, Ganjirô Nakamura, Noboru Nakaya, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kei Satô, Shigeru Kôyama, Jun Tazaki, Junkichi Orimoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Yoshirô Aoki, Isao Tamagawa, Hideyo Amamoto, Masaki Kobayashi, Yôko Mizuki, Lafcadio Hearn
• Director: Masaki Kobayashi
• Runtime: 3:03
• Company: Toho Company, Nijin Club
• Media Format: Movie