
Japan Release: 1964
Running Time: 183 minutes |
Kwaidan
Japanese Title
怪談
[Kwaidan]
Distributor: Production:
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Toho
Ninjin Club |
Broken into four chapters, each dealing with a different story on the super natural. The first, Black Hair, focuses on a poor samurai who abandons his wife to marry a woman from a rich family, only to be consumed by guilt. The second, The Woman of the Snow, covers a woodcutter's confrontation with the Lady of the Snow. This confrontation results in the death of the woodcutter's friend, who is frozen to death, while he is sparred and sworn to secrecy of the event. In the third chapter, Hoichi the Earless, a blind biwa player called Hoichi is visited by spirits who convince him to play for them while he is unaware of their ghostly nature. The priest at his temple, aware of this deception by the ghosts and the danger for Hoichi, attempt to protect the blind biwa player. The final chapter, In a Cup of Tea, is about a writer who tells the story of a man who sees a mysterious figure in his tea before drinking it, only to be visited by a ghost matching the appearance of the mysterious figure...
Live Action Science Fiction
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