Kwaidan @ The New Beverly

If you're at all a fan of Japanese cinema or horror films in general, not to mention J-Horror specifically, you have to see Kwaidan. The New Beverly is showing the full 161 minute international cut in 35mm and this is exactly the sort of film that makes it worth going out of your way to see it on the big screen.

## KWAIDAN

Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi startled audiences with a strikingly stylish spine-tingler, meticulously crafting an ambitious anthology epic to tell four haunted folk tales of the supernatural. Kwaidan, translated from the old Japanese word for ghost stories, remains one of cinema’s most indelible spectral spectacles, boldly beautiful, eerily patient, and chillingly atmospheric, featuring stunningly expressionistic color cinematography and unsettling sound design in its four legendary fables: The Black Hair, The Woman of the Snow, Hoichi the Earless, and In a Cup of Tea. This is the 161 minute “international” cut of the film.

“An assembly of ghost stories that is among the most beautiful films I’ve seen” – Roger Ebert

“Couple these sound effects and voices with some remarkable pictorial images and the consequence is a horror picture with an extraordinarily delicate and sensuous quality.” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

DIRECTOR Masaki Kobayashi
STARRING Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Tetsurô Tanba, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura
YEAR 1965
COUNTRY Japan
FORMAT 35mm
RUNNING TIME 161 minutes

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