KWAIDAN (WIDESCREEN) (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1964
• Genre: Fantasy, Horror
• Plot: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish production draws extensively on director Masaki Kobayashi's own training as a student of painting and fine arts. Criterion is proud to present Kwaidan in a new ravishing color transfer.
• Cast: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi, Fumie Kitahara, Kappei Matsumoto, Yoshiko Ieda, Otome Tsukimiya, Kenzô Tanaka, Kiyoshi Nakano, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Yûko Mochizuki, Kin Sugai, Noriko Sengoku, Akiko Nomura, Torahiko Hamada, Jun Hamamura, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsurô Tanba, Takashi Shimura, Yoichi Hayashi, Eiko Muramatsu, Kunie Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Ichirô Nakatani, Masanori Tomotake, Tokue Hanazawa, Shizue Natsukawa, Shin Tatsuoka, Makiko Kitashiro, Masakazu Kuwayama, Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru, Akira Tani, Yôsuke Kondô, 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, Kyôichi Satô, 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, Ganjirô Nakamura, Noboru Nakaya, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kei Satô, Shigeru Kôyama, Jun Tazaki, Junkichi Orimoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Yoshirô Aoki, Isao Tamagawa, Hideyo Amamoto, Masaki Kobayashi, Yôko Mizuki, Lafcadio Hearn
• Director: Masaki Kobayashi
• Runtime: 2:41
• Company: Toho Company Limited, The Criterion Collection, The Classic Collection, Home Vision Entertainment, Janus Films
• Media Format: Movie