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Kwaidan (1964)

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

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From Time Out Film Guide

Kobayashi's first independent production (after years of working under contract to a major studio) drew extensively on his own training as a student of Japanese painting and fine arts. It is a compendium of four ghost stories adapted from Lafcadio Hearn, so determinedly aesthetic in their design and style that horror frissons hardly get a look in. Very beautiful, though. One episode was removed when the film was released in Britain, reducing the running time to 125 minutes.

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Cast & crew

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Ganemon Nakamura, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 164 mins


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