Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Title on container: Kwaidan : a film by Masaki Kobayashi
Kaidan
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| Other title: | Kurokami.
Black hair.
Yuki-onna.
Woman of the snow.
Mimi nashi Hoichi no hanashi.
Hoichi, the earless.
Chawan no naka.
In a cup of tea.
黒髪.
雪女.
耳無し芳一の話.
茶碗の中.
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| Other uniform titles: | Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996,
Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914-
Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003,
Aratama, Michiyo,
Watanabe, Misako, 1932-
Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013,
Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-
Kishi, Keiko,
Nakamura, Katsuo,
Tanba, Tetsurō, 1922-2006,
Nakamura, Kanʼemon, 1901-1982,
Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000,
Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997,
Miyajima, Yoshio, 1909-1998,
Takemitsu, Tōru,
Ogasawara, Kiyoshi, 1936-
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. Kwaidan.
Prince, Stephen, 1955-
Shinoda, Masahiro, 1931-
O'Brien, Geoffrey, 1948-
小林正樹, 1916-1996,
若槻繁, 1914-
水木洋子, 1910-2003,
新珠三千代,
渡辺美佐子, 1932-
三国連太郎, 1923-2013,
仲代達矢, 1932-
岸恵子,
中村賀津雄,
丹波哲郎, 1922-2006,
中村翫右衛門, 1901-1982,
滝沢修, 1906-2000,
杉村春子, 1909-1997,
宮島義勇, 1909-1998,
武満徹,
小笠原淸, 1936-
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. 怪談.
福田善之, 1931-
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| Other authors / contributors: | Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
Bungei Purodakushon Ninjin Kurabu production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.
東宝株式会社, production company.
にんじんくらぶ, production company.
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| ISBN: | 1681430592
9781681430591
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital optical monaural Dolby Digital 1.0
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| Projection characteristics: | widescreen (2.35:1) 24 fps
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file DVD video Region 1
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| Notes: | Based on the writings of folklorist Lafcadio Hearn (aka: Yakumo Koizumi).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.
Widescreen (2.35:1).
Special features: New audio commentary by film historical Stephen Prince; Interview with Kobayashi from 1993, conduced by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda; New interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara; New piece about author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose versions of Japanese folktales Kwaidan is based; Trailers. Plus: container instert includes essay "No way out" by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Director of photography, Yoshio Miyajima ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Tōru Takemitsu.
Cast for Kurokami: Aratama Michiyo, Watanabe Misako, Mikuni Rentarō.
Cast for Yuki-onna: Nakadai Tatsuya, Kishi Keiko.
Cast for Mimi nashi Hoichi no hanashi: Nakamura Katsuo, Tanba Tetsurō.
Cast for Chawan no naka: Nakamura Kan'emon, Takizawa Osamu, Sugimura Haruko.
Cast for 黒髪: 新珠三千代, 渡辺美佐子, 三国連太郎.
Cast for 雪女: 仲代達矢, 岸恵子.
Cast for 耳無し芳一の話: 中村賀津雄, 丹波哲郎.
Cast for 茶碗の中: 中村翫右衛門, 滝沢修, 杉村春子.
DVD, NTSC region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Title from disc surface.
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| Summary: | After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. 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 woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi, the earless, a blind musician-monk named Hoichi is commanded by a gathering of ghosts to sing the saga of their ancient deeds. The head monk paints Hoichi's body with prayer verses to protect him, but unfortunately overlooks Hoichi's ears. In In a cup of tea, a writer wonders what would happen to a person who drinks another's soul and finds out.
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| Standard no.: | 715515159012
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| Publisher's no.: | CC2541DDVD The Criterion Collection
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