![]() ![]() Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. CAST: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama. A shorter version of the film received distribution stateside, where it was Japan’s nominee for Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards. Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make. Lafcadio Hearn, cuyo nombre japonés fue Koizumi Yakumo, fue un escritor del período Meiji conocido por su libro Kwaidan (Historias de fantasmas) y otras obras. ![]() Though it first premiered theatrically in its native Japan, Kwaidan later screened in official competition at the 18th Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. Inspired by Greek-Japanese author Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folktales and ghost stories, most notably Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), celebrated filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi’s anthology horror masterpiece plays out in four parts, each portraying age-old national tales of yuki-onna, ghost samurai, and other supernatural legends. ![]()
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