Kwaidan

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Kwaidan
US DVD cover
Directed by	Masaki Kobayashi
Produced by	Shigeru Wakatsuki
Written by	Novel: Lafcadio Hearn Screenplay: Yoko Mizuki
Music by	Toru Takemitsu
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Editing by	Hisashi Sagara
Distributed by	Toho
Released	December 29, 1964
Running time	183 min.
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Kwaidan (怪談, Kaidan) is a 1964 Japanese horror film based on a Lafcadio Hearn novel and directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

[edit] Cast

• Rentaro Mikuni ... Husband (Black Hair)
• Michiyo Aratama ... First wife (Black Hair)
• Misako Watanabe ... Second Wife (Black Hair)
• Tatsuya Nakadai ... Mi nokichi (The Woman in the Snow)
• Keiko Kishi ... Yuki the Snow Maiden (The Woman in the Snow)
• Katsuo Nakamura ... Hoichi (Hoichi the Earless)
• Tetsuro Tamba ... Warrior (Hoichi the Earless)
• Kanemon Nakamura ... Kannai, a Guard (In a Cup of Tea)
• Osamu Takizawa ... Author/Narrator (In a Cup of Tea)
• Ranko Akagi ... Mother
• Yoichi Hayashi ... Attendant (Hoichi the Earless)
• Kenjiro Ishiyama ... Father (Black Hair)
• Kazuo Kitamura ... Taira no Tomomori (Hoichi the Earless)
• Seiji Miyaguchi ... Old man (In a Cup of Tea)
• Yuko Mochizuki ... Minokichi's mother (The Woman in the Snow)
• Eiko Muramatsu ... Kenreiinmon - Hoichi the Earless
• Ganjiro Nakamura ... Publisher (In a Cup of Tea)
• Noboru Nakaya ... Shikibu Heinai (In a Cup of Tea)
• Akiko Naraoka ... Suzue, Kannai's Sister (In a Cup of Tea)
• Shizue Natsukawa ... Taira no Tokiko (Hoichi the Earless)
• Kei Sato ... Ghost samurai (In a Cup of Tea)
• Noriko Sengoku ... Village woman (The Woman in the Snow)
• Takashi Shimura ... Head priest (Hoichi the Earless)
• Kin Sugai ... Village woman (The Woman in the Snow)
• Haruko Sugimura ... Madame (In a Cup of Tea)
• Kunie Tanaka ... Yasaku (Hoichi the Earless)
• Akira Tani ... Huntsman #2 (Hoichi the Earless)
• Jun Tazaki ... Kannai's Colleague #1 (In a Cup of Tea)

[edit] External links

• Kwaidan at Wikipedia
• Kwaidan at The Criterion Collection
• Kwaidan review at Midnight Eye