Kwaidan

Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM
Michigan

Film | Horror/Anthology | NR | 3h 3m | 1964
Part of our Arthouse Revival: J-Horror series

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, 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.