DVD
Kwaidan
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Rentarō Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Jun Hamamura, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsurō Tanba, Takashi Shimura, Kanemon Nakamura, Noboru Nakaya, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (183 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk, adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories.
Notes
Based on stories by Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration of director Masaki Kobayashi's original cut ; new audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince ; interview with Kobayashi from 1993, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda ; new interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara ; new piece about author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose versions of Japanese folktales Kwaidan is based ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.
Contents
- Black hair
- Woman of the snow
- Hoichi, the earless
- In a cup of tea.