Kwaidan /
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of de...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Language Notes: | Japanese dialogue; English subtitles. |
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[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
2540. |
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| Summary: | After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Widescreen (2.35:1). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965. Special features: audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince; interview from 1993 with Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda; new interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara; new piece about author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose versions of Japanese folk tales Kwaidan is based; trailers; essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert. |
| Format: | Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player. |
| ISBN: | 1681430584 9781681430584 |