Essential Cinema: Roots of J-Horror

KWAIDAN

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi

Japan, 1965, 3h 3min, In Japanese with English subtitles.

Essential Cinema: Roots of J-Horror

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“Both gorgeous and scary … It can still hold its own against the new generation of horror films still sourcing it.”
—Empire

“A horror picture with an extraordinarily delicate and sensuous quality.”
—The New York Times

“This is unsettling, uncanny horror, in which each individual tale leisurely builds to a macabre punchline.”
—BFI

Full of widescreen compositions of weird, delicate beauty, KWAIDAN will linger in your dreams long after you see it. Though KWAIDAN tells four ghost stories, the intent is never to shock, though the atmosphere of unexplainable otherness creates a miasma of fear and dread. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Cannes.

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