Kaidan = Kwaidan /

Kaidan = Kwaidan /

怪談 = Kwaidan /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2000]
Description:	1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	Japanese
Series:	The Criterion collection ; 90 The classic collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 90. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject:	Ghosts -- Drama. Manners and customs. Supernatural. Japan. Feature films -- Japan. Horror films. Fantasy films. Ghost films. Fiction films. Drama. Feature films. Film adaptations. Horror films.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6166257

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Title on container: Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan Kwaidan
Other authors / contributors:	Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914- Mizuki, Yoko, 1910-2003 Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996 Aratama, Michiyo. Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013 Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904. 若槻繁, 1914- 水木洋子, 1910- 小林正樹, 1916- 新珠三千代. 三国連太郎, 1923- 仲代達矢, 1932- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha. 東宝株式会社.
ISBN:	0780023552
Notes:	Based on the writings of the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn. DVD release of the 1965 motion picture. Includes original theatrical trailer. Original story, Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn) ; director of photography, Yoshio Miyajima ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Tōru Takemitsu. Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarō Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsurō Tanba, Kanʼemon Nakamura, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura. DVD; Dolby digital mono.; anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio). In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Summary:	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 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.
Standard no.:	037429152027
Publisher's no.:	KWA020 Criterion Collection

Description
Summary:	A sensuous and arresting use of color, set design, and widescreen cinematography creates four heart-pounding ghost stories from Masaki Kobayashi. Four unrelated stories of the eerie and the supernatural, based on Japanese folklore.
Item Description:	Based on the writings of the folklorist Lafcadio Hearn. DVD release of the 1965 motion picture. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; Dolby digital mono.; anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio).
Production Credits:	Original story, Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn) ; director of photography, Yoshio Miyajima ; editor, Hisashi Sagara ; music, Tōru Takemitsu.
ISBN:	0780023552