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Kwaidan

1964, Movie, NR, 125 mins

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Directed with an eerie visual sense by Masaki Kobayashi and spectacularly designed by art director Shigemasa Toda, this creepy quartet of ghost stories based on the tales of Lafcadio Hearn continues to scare and amaze nearly forty years after it was first released in its native Japan. It's hard to choose a favorite segment, but you won't soon shake "Hoichi, the Earless." Read the complete review for Kwaidan
Year: 1964
Rated NR

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Cast
Rentaro Mikuni: Samurai
Michiyo Aratama: 1st Wife
Misako Watanabe: 2nd Wife
Katsuo Nakamura: Hoichi
Ganjiro Nakamura: Head Priest
Takashi Shimura: Priest

 

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