Kwaidan

7.7

Japan

Horror Fantasy Drama

183 min

1965

Ganjirō Nakamura II Osamu Takizawa Kan'emon Nakamura Aiko Nagayama Kyōichi Satō Atsuo Nakamura Kiyoshi Yamamoto Yōsuke Kondō Shizue Natsukawa Haruko Sugimura Noboru Nakaya Seiji Miyaguchi Hideyo Amamoto Isao Tamagawa Yoshirō Aoki Akiji Kobayashi Junkichi Orimoto Jun Tazaki Shigeru Kōyama Kei Satō Tokue Hanazawa Ichirō Nakatani Yūko Mochizuki Keiko Kishi Tatsuya Nakadai Otome Tsukimiya Fumie Kitahara Kenjirō Ishiyama Misako Watanabe Rentaro Mikuni Kin Sugai Noriko Sengoku Akiko Nomura Kazuo Kitamura Kunie Tanaka Eiko Muramatsu Yoichi Hayashi Takashi Shimura Tetsuro Tamba Jun Hamamura Torahiko Hamada Michiyo Aratama

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.