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Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. ' Ghost Stories ' ) is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi . It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn 's collections of Japanese folk tales , mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named.
Kwaidan delivers four vignettes of Japanese horror folklore: a vengeful wife left for dead, a snow demon, a blind musician who can communicate with the deceased, and a strange phenomenon in which ...
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. [1] It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi. [2]
Masaki Kobayashi (小林 正樹, Kobayashi Masaki, February 14, 1916 – October 4, 1996) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology Kwaidan (1964). [1]
The Snow Woman (Japanese: 怪談雪女郎, Hepburn: Kaidan Yukijorō, lit. ' Ghost Story of the Snow Woman ') is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film.
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Kaidan entered the vernacular during the Edo period, when a parlour game called Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai became popular. This game led to a demand for ghost stories and folktales to be gathered from all parts of Japan and China.The popularity of the game, as well as the acquisition of a printing press, led to the creation of a literary genre called kaidanshu.