Kwaidan [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray · 2015

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Unfolding like a series of painted nightmares and phantom whispers on rice paper, Masaki Kobayashi's 'Kwaidan' takes us deep into a stylised world of supernatural dread and ancient Japanese folklore, where the past never stays buried. The journey begins with 'The Black Hair'—a tragic tale of heartbreak and unconditional love—where an impoverished samurai abandons his devoted wife for wealth and status, only to discover belatedly that some vows can never be untangled. From the suffocating burden of choice, winter takes hold in 'The Woman of the Snow', a chilling encounter where a woodcutter trapped in a blizzard is spared by a glacial forest spirit, only to learn that keeping an unearthly secret carries a deadly price. As the freezing silence of the snow gives way to the mournful strum of a biwa in 'Hoichi the Earless', a blind musician finds his hypnotic ballads summoning phantom warriors from their watery grave, only to reap the terrifying, undeserved rewards. Trading the blood of the fallen for pitch-black sumi ink, the collection concludes with 'In a Cup of Tea', a surreal, reality-bending nightmare where a writer's own ghost story bleeds into the physical world, trapping a terrified scholar—and the author himself—in an inescapable, soul-gobbling haunting.

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni,Michiyo Aratama,Misako Watanabe,Tatsuya Nakadai,Takashi Shimura,Noriko Sengoku

Runtime

183 min

IMDb

7.9

Deal Score

71

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