Kwaidan

About the movie

Kwaidan, is the Japanese word for ghost story, revealing the content of Masaki Kobayashi’s horror anthology. I features the old folk tales The Black Hair, The Woman of the Snow, Hoichi the Earless, and In a Cup of Tea. Legendary film critic Roger Ebert described Kwaidan as “an assembly of ghost stories that is among the most beautiful films I’ve seen”, and upon its release, Kwaidan was awarded with the Special Jury Prize in Cannes, and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

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