Kwaidan
Summary:
Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who began his career in the United States at the age of 19 and moved permanently to Japan in 1890 at the age of 40, where he eventually became a subject of the empire and took on the name Koizumi Yakuno. Hearn became a conduit of Japanese culture to western... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Rentaro Mikuni - (Samurai)
Michiyo Aratama - (First Wife)
Misako Watanabe - (Second Wife)
Keiko Kishi
Tetsuro Tamba - (Michi)
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Review:
Elegantly shot in widescreen by Yoshio Miyajima and impressively scored by Toru Takemitsu (Japan's greatest film composer), Kwaidan is a visual or aural feast. It's also the last great film by director Masaki Kobayashi, best known for his epic World War II trilogy The Human Condition. For contemporary western film audiences used t... Continue >>
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