Slideshow
Masaki Kobayashi’s
KWAIDAN
怪談
Friday, September 11 – Thursday, September 17
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF DIRECTOR’S ORIGINAL CUT
Japan, 1964
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Based on a collection of folktales by Lafcadio Hearn
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe
Approx. 183 min.
Rentarô Mikuni finds a skeleton at the feast when he adds a second wife; woodcutter Tatsuya Nakadai meets a strange woman in the snow; a blind biwa player gives a command performance for a spirit; an apparition appears in a cup of tea: four ghost stories by expat Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). Kobayashi’s first color film, with an eerie score.
Restoration by Toho Co., Ltd.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and The Reginald S. Reinhardt, Ling-Makeku Fund for Asia-Pacific Films
A JANUS FILMS RELEASE
Reviews
“ENTHRALLING... WEAVES A SPELL OF ENCHANTMENT.”
– Los Angeles Times
“An assembly of ghost stories that is among the most beautiful films I’ve seen.”
– RogerEbert.com
“A horror picture with an extraordinarily delicate and sensuous quality.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times