Kwaidan (1964) - The A.V. Club

Cast

Rentarô Mikuni (Husband (segment "Kurokami"))Michiyo Aratama (First wife (segment "Kurokami"))Misako Watanabe (Second Wife (segment "Kurokami"))Kenjirô Ishiyama (Father (segment "Kurokami"))Ranko Akagi (Mother (segment "Kurokami"))Fumie Kitahara ((segment "Kurokami"))Kappei Matsumoto ((segment "Kurokami"))Yoshiko Ieda ((segment "Kurokami"))Otome Tsukimiya ((segment "Kurokami"))Kenzô Tanaka ((segment "Kurokami"))Kiyoshi Nakano ((segment "Kurokami"))Tatsuya Nakadai (Mi nokichi (segment "Yuki-Onna"))Keiko Kishi (Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "Yuki-Onna"))Yûko Mochizuki (Minokichi's mother (segment "Yuki-Onna"))Kin Sugai (Village woman (segment "Yuki-Onna"))Noriko Sengoku (Village woman (segment "Yuki-Onna"))Akiko Nomura ((segment "Yuki-Onna"))Torahiko Hamada ((segment "Yuki-Onna"))

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Synopsis

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

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