Trailer
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Kwaidan

Runtime
2hrs 40mins
Directed by
Masaki Kobayashi
Featuring
Rentarô Mikuni,
Tatsuya Nakadai,
Michiyo Aratama
Film Language
in Japanese with English subtitles
Body

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, 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 meticulously crafted. 

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