A 1964 film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the Japanese ghost stories collected and translated by Lafcadio Hearn.

A page for describing YMMV: Kwaidan. Germans Love David Hasselhoff: According to an interview with director Masaki Kobayashi on the film's Criterion Blu-ray ...

Bad Export for You: The original US theatrical release removed the Yuki-onna section of the movie. Eventually averted in home media releases.

A 1959 horror film from Japan directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. It is based on the 1825 kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan, which became hugely famous in Japan.

A classic Kabuki play (specifically a hybrid of kizewemono and kaidanmono) and arguably the most famous ghost story in Japanese history.

The series tells the story of Satsuki Miyanoshita, who moves with her family to the hometown of her deceased mother, Kayako.

This essay engages with Kobayashi's Kwaidan, an anthology of four short films about ghosts, to foreground its uniqueness in the horror genre.

25 апр. 2020 г. · Kwaidan is about stories and their telling. What they say about those who perpetuate them, and what our responses to them say about us.

Оценка 3,9 (7) · 3,74 $ In 14th-century Japan, an orphan with no face finds herself haunted by the ghosts of a samurai and his lover, both of whom died more than 200 years before.

The short Japanese film Black Hair, from the anthology Kwaidan, is a classic example. The eponymous spirit in The Legend of Black Annie is a bit an atypical ...