Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Kwaidan [videorecording] / Toho Company, Ltd. ; a Ninjin Club production ; Janus Films ; produced by Shigeru Wakatsuki ; screenplay by Yoko Mizuki ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
Call Number:
DVD JAPANESE K
Publisher, Date:
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2000]
Description:
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 90
The classic collection
Criterion collection 90.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:
Ghosts -- Drama.
Japanese language DVDs.
World DVDs.
Genre:
Horror films.
Fantasy films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Foreign films.
Feature films -- Japan.
Other Author:
Wakatsuki, Shigeru, 1914-
Mizuki, Yōko, 1910-2003
Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996.
Aratama, Michiyo.
Watanabe, Misako, 1932-
Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013
Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932-
Kishi, Keiko.
Nakamura, Katsuo.
Tanba, Tetsurō, 1922-2006.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
Hayashi, Yoichi.
Nakaya, Noburu.
Nakamura, Kanʼemon, 1901-1982.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Other Title:
Title on container: Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan
Title on screen: Kaidan
Contents:
Kurokami = The black hair -- Yuki-onna = The woman of the snow -- Mimi nashi Hoichi no hanashi = Hoichi, the earless -- Chawan no naka = In a cup of tea.
ISBN:
0780023552