Kwaidan
- Released on
- Runtime
- 183 mins
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.
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
