Kwaidan

Kwaidan

Released on
Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Runtime
183 mins
(384 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Michiyo Aratama
  • Rentaro Mikuni
  • Misako Watanabe
  • Kenjirō Ishiyama
  • Ranko Akagi
  • Fumie Kitahara
  • Kappei Matsumoto
  • Yoshiko Ieda
  • Otome Tsukimiya
  • Kenzō Tanaka
  • Kiyoshi Nakano
  • Tatsuya Nakadai
  • Keiko Kishi
  • Yūko Mochizuki
  • Kin Sugai
  • Noriko Sengoku
  • Akiko Nomura
  • Torahiko Hamada
  • Jun Hamamura
  • Katsuo Nakamura
  • Tetsuro Tamba
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Yoichi Hayashi
  • Eiko Muramatsu
  • Kunie Tanaka
  • Kazuo Kitamura
  • Ichirō Nakatani
  • Masanori Tomotake
  • Tokue Hanazawa
  • Shizue Natsukawa
  • Shin Tatsuoka
  • Makiko Kitashiro
  • Masakazu Kuwayama
  • Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
  • Akira Tani
  • Yousuke Kondou
  • Kiyoshi Yamamoto
  • Kinji Omino
  • Atsuo Nakamura
  • Ginzô Sekiguchi
  • Akio Miyabe
  • Gen'ya Nagai
  • Toru Uchida
  • Hikaru Jinno
  • Toshio Fukuhara
  • Kirô Abe
  • Toshiro Yagi
  • Yuriko Abe
  • Yuri Satô
  • Kyōichi Satō
  • Nobuo Aikawa
  • Taiji Kodama
  • Nobuaki Maeda
  • Teruhiko Shibata
  • Haruo Kaji
  • Michio Gina
  • Seiji Tabe
  • Mitsuko Narita
  • Noriko Mikura
  • Aiko Nagayama
  • Michiko Nakahata
  • Kan'emon Nakamura
  • Osamu Takizawa
  • Haruko Sugimura
  • Noboru Nakaya
  • Seiji Miyaguchi
  • Kei Satō
  • Shigeru Kōyama
  • Jun Tazaki
  • Junkichi Orimoto
  • Akiji Kobayashi
  • Yoshirō Aoki
  • Isao Tamagawa
  • Hideyo Amamoto
  • Ganjirō Nakamura II

Director

  • Masaki Kobayashi

Producers

  • Shigeru Wakatsuki

Screenwriter

  • Yoko Mizuki

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