Kwaidan(Movie, 1964)

Name: Kwaidan
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Released: 1964
Duration: T03:3:00
Rating: 3.9

Original title: "怪談" (Japanese/JA)

3h 3min | Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Drama

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 152 votes)

Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. 'Ghost Stories') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. Kwaidan is an archaic transliteration of the term kaidan, meaning "ghost story". Receiving critical acclaim, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Kwaidan

nominated for: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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Trailer for Kwaidan + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

KWAIDAN (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer(Trailer, 1:28)

KWAIDAN (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer 2 (Trailer) | Ernest Dickerson on KWAIDAN (Featurette)

Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Plays in: Kyoto, Japan

Based on the work of: Lafcadio Hearn ("Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things")

Made by: Toho Company, Ninjin Club, Bungei, Toyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 20 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/29/1964

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kei Satō, Rentarō Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Nakamura Ganjirō II, Sugimura Haruko, Katsuo Nakamura, Noriko Sengoku, Osamu Takizawa, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tetsurō Tamba, Yūko Mochizuki, Kin Sugai

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Screenwriter: Yōko Mizuki

Director of Photography: Yoshio Miyajima

Composer: Tōru Takemitsu

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Kwaidan: Historias Sobrenaturales"

"Призрачни Истории"

"As 4 Faces do Medo"

"奇谈"

"El más allá"

"Kwaidan - Storie di Fantasmi"

"Kaidan"

"El más allá"

"Gjenferd"

"Kwaidan, czyli Niesamowite Historie"

"O Abismo da Morte"

"Priče o Duhovima"

"Квайдан: Повествование о загадочном и ужасном"

"Квайдан: Повествование о Загадочном и Ужасном"

"Ghost Stories"

"Kaidan"

"Weird Tales"

"Kwaidan: Historias Sobrenaturales"

Keywords: vengeful ghost, snow, ghost, horror anthology, samurai, snowstorm, spirit, based on novel or book, ghost story, sea battle, ghost lover, story teller, blind character, japanese folklore, japanese horror, promise

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Kwaidan(Movie, 1964)

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