Kwaidan, Janus Films ; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; Ninjin Kurabu ; seisaku Wakatsuki Shigeru ; kyakuhon Mizuki Yōko ; kantoku Kobayashi Masaki = Janus Films ; Toho Scope ; a Ninjin Club production ; produced by Wakatsuki Shigeru ; screenplay by Mizuki Yoko ; directed by Kobayashi Masaki
Type
Label
Kwaidan, Janus Films ; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; Ninjin Kurabu ; seisaku Wakatsuki Shigeru ; kyakuhon Mizuki Yōko ; kantoku Kobayashi Masaki = Janus Films ; Toho Scope ; a Ninjin Club production ; produced by Wakatsuki Shigeru ; screenplay by Mizuki Yoko ; directed by Kobayashi Masaki
Language
jpn
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Kwaidan
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
921154558
Responsibility statement
Janus Films ; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha ; Ninjin Kurabu ; seisaku Wakatsuki Shigeru ; kyakuhon Mizuki Yōko ; kantoku Kobayashi Masaki = Janus Films ; Toho Scope ; a Ninjin Club production ; produced by Wakatsuki Shigeru ; screenplay by Mizuki Yoko ; directed by Kobayashi Masaki
Runtime
183
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 90
Summary
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, 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. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds. The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea, a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's soul and finds out
Technique
live action
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Kwaidan : a film by Masaki KobayashiKaidan
Classification
Contributor
- Mochizuki, Yuko, 1917-1977
- Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013
- Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000
- Nakaya, Noboru, 1929-2006
- Miyajima, Yoshio, 1909-1998
- Toda, Shigemasa, 1928-1987
- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Watanabe, Misako, 1932-
- Nakamura, Katsuo
- Ninjin Kurabu
- Muramatsu, Eiko, 1938-
- Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996
- Takemitsu, Tōru
- Tanaka, Kunie, 1932-
- Ishiyama, Kenjirô, 1903-
- Nakamura, Kanʼemon, 1901-1982
- Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003
- Kishi, Keiko
- Tanba, Tetsurō, 1922-2006
- O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948-
- Prince, Stephen, 1955-
- Aratama, Michiyo
- Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
- Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-
- Hanazawa, Tokue, 1911-2001
- Satō, Kei, 1928-2010
- Akagi, Ranko, 1914-1973
- Sagara, Hisashi
- Janus Films
- Shinoda, Masahiro, 1931-
- Tomotake, Masanori
- Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997
- Naraoka, Tomoko, 1929-
- Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914-
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Hayashi, Yoichi, 1942-
- Nakamura, Ganjirō, 1902-1983
- Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-
- Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
- Ogasawara, Kiyoshi, 1936-
Genre
Subject
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 -- Film adaptations
- Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama
- Ghost films -- Japan
- Ghost plays
- Foreign films
- Supernatural -- Drama
- Feature films -- Japan
- Film adaptations
- Horror films -- Japan
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- DVDs
- Apparitions -- Drama
- Motion pictures -- Japan
- Japanese language films
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- Nakamura, Katsuo
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- Takemitsu, Tōru
- Tanaka, Kunie, 1932-
- Ishiyama, Kenjirô, 1903-
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- Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003
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- Tomotake, Masanori
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- Nakamura, Ganjirō, 1902-1983
- Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-
- Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
- Ogasawara, Kiyoshi, 1936-
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- Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama
- Ghost films -- Japan
- Ghost plays
- Foreign films
- Supernatural -- Drama
- Feature films -- Japan
- Film adaptations
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- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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