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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.
Jun 2, 2019 · Kwaidan (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.
- 183 min
- 38.1K
- Nippon Film Collection
Kwaidan is a collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes, directed by Masaki Kobayashi and based on stories by Lafcadio Hearn. The film features stunning cinematography, eerie atmospheres and ghostly spirits, but also some slow and dull moments.
- (20K)
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Masaki Kobayashi
- 1965-11-22
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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 mortals caught up in...
- 1 min
- 188.9K
- Eurekaentertainment
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.
- Samurai
About this movie. arrow_forward. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears...
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