Kwaidan/ 怪談 In the tradition of "RASHOMON" and "GATE OF HELL." Release date: 1965-01-06 Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Drama Actors: Shigeru Kōyama, Kunie Tanaka, Akiji Kobayashi, Misako Watanabe, Junkichi Orimoto, Jun Tazaki, Kazuo Kitamura, Noboru Nakaya, Atsuo Nakamura, Jun Hamamura, Tokue Hanazawa, Michiyo Aratama, Aiko Nagayama, Torahiko Hamada, Yoichi Hayashi, Akiko Nomura, Shizue Natsukawa, Isao Tamagawa, Masakazu Kuwayama, Kappei Matsumoto, Akira Tani, Kenjirō Ishiyama, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Yoshirō Aoki, Takashi Shimura, Rentaro Mikuni, Tetsuro Tamba, Keiko Kishi, Kei Satō, Katsuo Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Haruko Sugimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Noriko Sengoku, Kin Sugai, Hideyo Amamoto, Ichirō Nakatani, Yōsuke Kondō, Osamu Takizawa, Fumie Kitahara, Kyōichi Satō, Kan'emon Nakamura, Shin Tatsuoka, Ranko Akagi, Otome Tsukimiya, Yūko Mochizuki, Makiko Kitashiro, Akio Miyabe, Eiko Muramatsu, Yuriko Abe, Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru, Kinji Omino, Teruhiko Shibata, Taiji Kodama, Toshiro Yagi, Ginzô Sekiguchi, Seiji Tabe, Michiko Nakahata, Yoshiko Ieda, Kenzō Tanaka, Kiyoshi Nakano, Gen'ya Nagai, Nobuaki Maeda, Masanori Tomotake, Toshio Fukuhara, Mitsuko Narita, Kirô Abe, Haruo Kaji, Toru Uchida, Nobuo Aikawa, Noriko Mikura, Hikaru Jinno, Yuri Satô, Michio Gina Direction: Kiyoshi Yamamoto Runtime: 3 h. 3 min. Score: 7.7/10 Votes: 410 Countries: Japan Companies: Ninjin Club Available* : Overview: 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.
