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Kwaidan

7.7 183 mins Horror   Fantasy   Drama   1965
Ninjin Club  
Director(s): Masaki Kobayashi

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

Casts of Kwaidan

Michiyo Aratama

as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Rentaro Mikuni

as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")

Misako Watanabe

as Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")

Kenjirō Ishiyama

as Father (segment "The Black Hair")

Ranko Akagi

as Mother (segment "The Black Hair")

Fumie Kitahara

as (segment "The Black Hair")

Kappei Matsumoto

as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Yoshiko Ieda

as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Otome Tsukimiya

as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kenzō Tanaka

as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Nakano

as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Keiko Kishi

as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Yūko Mochizuki

as Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Kin Sugai

as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Noriko Sengoku

as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Akiko Nomura

as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Torahiko Hamada

as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)

Jun Hamamura

as (segment "The Woman of the Snow")

Katsuo Nakamura

as Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Tetsuro Tamba

as Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Takashi Shimura

as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Yoichi Hayashi

as Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Eiko Muramatsu

as Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kunie Tanaka

as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Kazuo Kitamura

as Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Ichirō Nakatani

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masanori Tomotake

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Tokue Hanazawa

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shizue Natsukawa

as Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Shin Tatsuoka

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Makiko Kitashiro

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Masakazu Kuwayama

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akira Tani

as Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yōsuke Kondō

as Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kinji Omino

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Atsuo Nakamura

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

GinzÃŽ Sekiguchi

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Akio Miyabe

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Gen'ya Nagai

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toru Uchida

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Hikaru Jinno

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshio Fukuhara

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

KirÃŽ Abe

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Toshiro Yagi

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuriko Abe

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Yuri SatÃŽ

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kyōichi Satō

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuo Aikawa

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Taiji Kodama

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Nobuaki Maeda

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Teruhiko Shibata

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Haruo Kaji

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michio Gina

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Seiji Tabe

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Mitsuko Narita

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Noriko Mikura

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Aiko Nagayama

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Michiko Nakahata

as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)

Kan'emon Nakamura

as Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Osamu Takizawa

as Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Haruko Sugimura

as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Noboru Nakaya

as Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Seiji Miyaguchi

as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Kei Satō

as Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

Shigeru Kōyama

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Jun Tazaki

as Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Junkichi Orimoto

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Akiji Kobayashi

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Yoshirō Aoki

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Isao Tamagawa

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)

Ganjirō Nakamura II

as Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

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