Kwaidan

Blu-ray 1965

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and metic...

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Apparitions Fiction

Japan Social life and customs Fiction

Paranormal fiction

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Feature films Fiction Foreign films Ghost films Horror films Motion pictures, Japanese Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion Collection Criterion Collection ; 90 Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 90 Blu-ray

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ISBN:

9781681430584
1681430584

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (183 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Kaidan

Notes:

Based on the writings of folklorist Lafcadio Hearn (aka: Yakumo Koizumi)
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965
Title from container
Director of photography, Yoshio Miyajima ; music, Tōru Takemitsu ; production designer, Shigemasa Toda ; editor, Hisashi Sagara
Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarō Mikuni, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural
For private home use only
Audio tracks in Japanese, with optional subtitles in English

Control Number:

3182828

UPC:

715515158916

Other Authors:

Akagi, Ranko, 1914-1973, actor
Aratama, Michiyo, actor
Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954- filmmaker
Bungei Purodakushon Ninjin Kurabu, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Hanazawa, Tokue, 1911-2001, actor
Hayashi, Yoichi, 1942- actor
Ishiyama, Kenjirô, 1903- actor
Janus Films, production company
Kishi, Keiko, actor
Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996, film director, interviewee (expression)
Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013, actor
Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985, actor
Miyajima, Yoshio, 1909-1998, director of photography
Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003, screenwriter
Mochizuki, Yūko, 1917-1977, actor
Muramatsu, Eiko, 1938- actor
Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932- actor
Nakamura, Ganjirō, 1902-1983, actor
Nakamura, Kanʼemon, 1901-1982, actor
Nakamura, Katsuo, 1938- actor
Nakaya, Noboru, 1929-2006, actor
Naraoka, Tomoko, 1929-2023, actor
O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948- writer of supplementary textual content
Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020, commentator
Sagara, Hisashi, editor of moving image work
Satō, Kei, 1928-2010, actor
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, actor
Shinoda, Masahiro, 1931-2025 interviewer (expression)
Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997, actor
Takemitsu, Tōru, composer (expression)
Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000, actor
Tanaka, Kunie, 1932-2021, actor
Tanba, Tetsurō, 1922-2006, actor
Toda, Shigemasa, 1928-1987, production designer
Tomotake, Masanori, actor
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company
Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914-1987 film producer
Watanabe, Misako, 1932- actor
motion picture adaptation of (work): Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. Kwaidan

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