Kaidan [videorecording] = Kwaidan / Toho Company, Ltd. ; a Ninjin Club production ; Janus Films ; produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki ; screenplay by Yoko Mizuki ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 (Author)
Corporate Author:	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Other Authors:	Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914- (Producer), Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003 (Screenwriter), Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996 (Director), Aratama, Michiyo (Actor), Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013 (Actor), Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932- (Actor)
Other title:	Title on container: Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. Kwaidan. ITS Video Library.
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese English
Published:	New York, New York : Criterion Collection [Distributor], [2000]
Edition:	Anamorphic widescreen.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 90. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:	Ghost plays. Feature films. Ghost films. Drama films. rOMANCE FILMS. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Horror films. Fantasy films.