hkDVD DVDinfo - kaidan (kwaiden ghost stories weird tales kwaidan) dvd - director masaki kobayashi,script by lafcadio hearn(novel),yoko mizuki, cast: ganjiro nakamura,haruko sugimura,jun taz

Kaidan 1946 (Kwaiden Ghost Stories Weird Tales kwaidan)

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Kaidan 1946 (Kwaiden Ghost Stories Weird Tales kwaidan)

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This DVD is Region-Free. Should play on all machines, including PS/2 game consoles.

Disc/Technical Information

Publisher : HKV
Audio : Japanese (Mono)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English
Running Time : 161mins
Release Year : 1964
In-stock : YES (Usually ships within 24hrs)

(Synopsis) This film contains four distinct, separate stories.

Black Hair - A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her.

The Woman in the Snow - Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise.

Hoichi the Earless - Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something.

In a Cup of Tea - a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.

Director
Masaki Kobayashi

Script
Lafcadio Hearn (novel)
Yoko Mizuki

Cast
Ganjiro Nakamura
Haruko Sugimura
Jun Tazaki
Kanemon Nakamura
Katsuo Nakamura
Kei Sato
Keiko Kishi
Kenjiro Ishiyama
Kin Sugai
Kunie Tanaka
Michiyo Aratama
Misako Watanabe
Noboru Nakaya
Noriko Sengoku
Osamu Takizawa
Ranko Akagi
Rentaro Mikuni
Seiji Miyaguchi
Takashi Shimura
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tetsuro Tamba
Yoichi Hayashi
Yuko Mochizuki

Publisher : HKV
Audio : Japanese (Mono)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English
Running Time : 161mins
Release Year : 1964