Kwaidan (film)
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| Directed by | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Produced by | Shigeru Wakatsuki |
| Screenplay by | Yoko Mizuki |
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Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn |
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| Music by | Toru Takemitsu |
| Cinematography | Yoshio Miyajima |
| Edited by | Hisashi Sagara |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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182 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kwaidan (怪談 Kaidan?, literally "strange stories") is a 1965 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, for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. Kwaidan is an archaic transliteration of Kaidan, meaning 'ghost story'. It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
"The Black Hair" (黒髪 Kurokami?) was adapted from "The Reconciliation", which appeared in Hearn's collection Shadowings (1900). An impoverished swordsman living in Kyoto divorces his wife, a weaver, for a woman of a wealthy family to attain greater social status. He takes his new wife to his new position as a district governor. However despite his new wealthy status, the swordsman's second marriage proves to be unhappy. With his second wife being callous and shallow, the swordsman regrets leaving his more devoted and patient ex-wife.
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