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Kwaidan is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Masaki Kobayashi released in USA on 15 july 1965 with Rentarō Mikuni
Kwaidan (1965)
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Add to a movie listKwaidan (怪談, Kaidan, literally "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, for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. Kwaidan is an archaic transliteration of Kaidan, meaning "ghost story". It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Synopsis
"The Black Hair" (黒髪, Kurokami) was adapted from "The Reconciliation", which appeared in Hearn's collection Shadowings (1900). An impoverished swordsman living in Kyoto divorces his wife, a weaver, for a woman of a wealthy family to attain greater social status. He takes his new wife to his new position as a district governor. However, the swordsman's second marriage proves to be unhappy. His second wife being callous and shallow, the swordsman regrets leaving his more devoted ex-wife.Actors
Rentarō Mikuni
(Husband (segment "The Black Hair"))
Keiko Kishi
(Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow"))
Takashi Shimura
(Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless"))
Michiyo Aratama
(First Wife (segment "The Black Hair"))
Kei Satō
(Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea"))
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