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Kwaidan
1965, Jan 06
3h 3m
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.
Directed by
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentaro Mikuni
Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
Kunie Tanaka
Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Jun Tazaki
Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Kazuo Kitamura
Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Tatsuya Nakadai
Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Michiyo Aratama
First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Katsuo Nakamura
Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Seiji Miyaguchi
Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Haruko Sugimura
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Shigeru Kōyama
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Shizue Natsukawa
Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Junkichi Orimoto
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Kei Satō
Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Hideyo Amamoto
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Noriko Sengoku
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Tetsuro Tamba
Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Torahiko Hamada
(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Yoshirō Aoki
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Atsuo Nakamura
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Tokue Hanazawa
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akira Tani
Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kin Sugai
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Takashi Shimura
Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Misako Watanabe
Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Akiji Kobayashi
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Osamu Takizawa
Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Aiko Nagayama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Keiko Kishi
Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Ichirō Nakatani
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Noboru Nakaya
Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Yoichi Hayashi
Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Isao Tamagawa
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Yūko Mochizuki
Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Father (segment "The Black Hair")
Kyōichi Satō
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yousuke Kondou
Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Fumie Kitahara
(segment "The Black Hair")
Eiko Muramatsu
Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Otome Tsukimiya
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kan'emon Nakamura
Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Ranko Akagi
Mother (segment "The Black Hair")
Kappei Matsumoto
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Yoshiko Ieda
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kenzō Tanaka
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Nakano
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Akiko Nomura
(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Jun Hamamura
(segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Masanori Tomotake
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shin Tatsuoka
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Makiko Kitashiro
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Masakazu Kuwayama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kinji Omino
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ginzô Sekiguchi
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akio Miyabe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Gen'ya Nagai
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toru Uchida
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Hikaru Jinno
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshio Fukuhara
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kirô Abe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshiro Yagi
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuriko Abe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuri Satô
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuo Aikawa
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Taiji Kodama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuaki Maeda
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Teruhiko Shibata
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Haruo Kaji
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michio Gina
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Seiji Tabe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mitsuko Narita
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Noriko Mikura
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michiko Nakahata
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
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