Kwaidan (1964)
(Ghost Stories)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/scope 164m
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Ganjiro Nakamura, Katsuo Nakamura
Synopsis:
Four Japanese folk tales with supernatural ingredients.
Review:
The director's first colour film is an assault on the eye of truly aesthetic dimensions. This did not offer the same thrills as a Tales from the Crypt, say, but steeped as it is in the national culture, with its tales of samurai, priests and black-haired women, western audiences found it all the richer and stranger.
(Ghost Stories)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/scope 164m
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Ganjiro Nakamura, Katsuo Nakamura
Synopsis:
Four Japanese folk tales with supernatural ingredients.
Review:
The director's first colour film is an assault on the eye of truly aesthetic dimensions. This did not offer the same thrills as a Tales from the Crypt, say, but steeped as it is in the national culture, with its tales of samurai, priests and black-haired women, western audiences found it all the richer and stranger.
(Ghost Stories)
Country: JAP
Technical: col/scope 164m
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Ganjiro Nakamura, Katsuo Nakamura
Synopsis:
Four Japanese folk tales with supernatural ingredients.
Review:
The director's first colour film is an assault on the eye of truly aesthetic dimensions. This did not offer the same thrills as a Tales from the Crypt, say, but steeped as it is in the national culture, with its tales of samurai, priests and black-haired women, western audiences found it all the richer and stranger.