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Ghost Stories (1964) | User Rating
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Original title: Kaidan
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 10, 2000
Budget $350 Million
Running Time
2 hours, 44 minutes
Country Japan
Production Companies
Bungei, Ninjin Club, Toho Company, Toyo Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Studio Ninjin Club
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Ghost Stories
• Kaidan (1964)
• Ghost Story
• Hoichi the Earless
• Weird Tales
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Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Ghosts, Witches, Wizards & Magic, Experimental, Period Piece, Fantasy, Infidelity
Plot: Director Masaki Kobayashi invested five years of preparation before shooting this anthological adaptation of four tales of the supernatural by Lafcadio Hearn. The first, "Black Hair," stars Rentaro Mikuni as a poverty-stricken samurai who leaves his kind wife (Michiyo Aratama) to marry the daughter (Misako Watanabe) of a wealthy official. After years of misery with this woman he returns to his first wife to find a bitter surprise. In the second, "The Woman of the Snow," a woodcutter (Tatsuya Nakadai) and his brother take shelter from a snowstorm in a deserted hut. However, trouble arises when a strange woman (Keiko Kishi) appears. The third, "Hoichi the Earless," features a blind temple musician (Katsuo Nakamura), who is known for his mastery of the ballad of the Heike clan. A samurai ghost bids him sing the ballad at the Heike tomb, and Buddhist priests protect him by painting his body with a depiction of the sacred text. In the last tale, "In a Cup of Tea," a samurai (Ganemon Nakamura) famed for courage, has a recurring vision of the face of another samurai in his tea. Shot entirely on a soundstage to allow the director complete control of the film's palette, it's a stunning display of sensuous color, perfectly suited to these otherworldly tales of the macabre. Takemitsu's
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