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Dominican Rep. Kwaidan
- Original title
- Kaidanaka
- AKA
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- Kwaidan
- Ghost Stories
- Year
- 1964
- Running time
- 182 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Yôko Mizuki. Book: Lafcadio Hearn
- Cast
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Tatsuya Nakadai
Rentarô Mikuni
Katsuo Nakamura
Kenjiro Ishiyama
Kei Sato
Takashi Shimura
Michiyo Aratama
Keiko Kishi
Haruko Sugimura
Kunie Tanaka
Tetsurô Tanba
Noboru Nakaya
Kazuo Kitamura- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy. Horror. Drama | Supernatural. Ghosts. J-Horror. Samurai. Anthology Film
- Synopsis
- This film contains four distinct, separate stories.
"Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her.
"The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise.
"Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something.
"In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1965: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture1965: Cannes Film Festival: Jury Special Prize
- Critics' reviews
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"This awesome and enthralling Japanese [film] weaves a spell of enchantment with its weird stories, which unfold amidst settings of surrealistic splendor"
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"All three stories are weird and wonderful, and under Kobayashi's direction, the film casts its own exotic and highly colourful spell."
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"Film is visually and physically stunning but its three tales of the supernatural are more intellectual than visceral."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 36 My Favorite Japanese Movies (54)
- 72 My Favorite Asian Movies (64)
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