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User Rating:
8.0/10   3,661 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Yôko Mizuki (screenplay)
Lafcadio Hearn (novel)
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Release Date:
22 November 1965 (USA) more
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Plot:
This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
One of the best films I have seen in a long time! more (57 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Michiyo Aratama ... First wife (segment "Kurokami")
Misako Watanabe ... Second Wife (segment "Kurokami")
Rentarô Mikuni ... Husband (segment "Kurokami")
Kenjiro Ishiyama ... Father (segment "Kurokami") (as Kenjirô Ishiyama)
Ranko Akagi ... Mother (segment "Kurokami")
Fumie Kitahara ... (segment "Kurokami")
Kappei Matsumoto ... (segment "Kurokami")
Yoshiko Ieda ... (segment "Kurokami")
Otome Tsukimiya ... (segment "Kurokami")
Kenzo Tanaka ... (segment "Kurokami") (as Kenzô Tanaka)
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")
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ghost Stories (International: English title) (literal title) (USA)
Hoichi the Earless
Kwaidan (USA)
Weird Tales
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Runtime:
183 min | Argentina:162 min | Spain:182 min (25 fps) (DVD edition) | USA:125 min | Japan:161 min (cut version)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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24 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
One of the best films I have seen in a long time!, 7 July 2002
10/10
Author: anton-6 from sweden

This film looks much like a painting. It's really a piece of art. I love films with brilliant cinematography and godly colors wich this film has. I bought it on Criterion Collection cheap without knowing anything about it. But I got more and more in to it when I read the user comments here on the internet movie database.

The film is four Japanese horror stories. They are maybe not so frightening when you see them but later on when you think about the film they GET scary. The first one is about a samurai who leaves his wife because of that she are so poor and marries a rich woman. It all ends up in horror. The second story are about two woodcuters that meets a snow woman that kills one of them(the old man) but let the young boy live if he promise to not tell anyone.

The third story which are one of the best things I have ever seen on film. It's a masterful story and even if the three others also are superb this might be the best. And the last story is great. This is a masterful film. A must see

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