Kwaidan [DVD] / producer, Shigeru Wakatsuki ; screenplay, Yko Mizuki ; directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

Personal Name: Kobayashi, Masaki, 1916-1996, director.

Physical Description2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..

Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.

Note:"This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States"--www.criterion.com.

Note:Based on the collection of tales by Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi).

Note:Mono, wide screen 2.35:1.

Note:Essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien in container.

Note:Features: new audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince; interview with Kobayashi from 1993, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda; new interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara; new piece about author Lafcadio Hearn; trailers; new English subtitle translation.

Note:Four tales of the supernatural adapted from Japanese folk tales.

Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.

PerformersMichiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Takashi Shimura, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura.

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