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Dominican Rep. Kwaidan
4,115
Fantasy. Horror. Drama
This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his ... [+]
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"This awesome and enthralling Japanese [film] weaves a spell of enchantment with its weird stories, which unfold amidst settings of surrealistic splendor" | POS |
United Kingdom |
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"All three stories are weird and wonderful, and under Kobayashi's direction, the film casts its own exotic and highly colourful spell." | POS |
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The Guardian | "There aren't likely to be many films this year as visually magnificent as Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan." | POS |
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"Film is visually and physically stunning but its three tales of the supernatural are more intellectual than visceral." | NEU |
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"It is a compendium of four ghost stories adapted from Lafcadio Hearn, so determinedly aesthetic in their design and style that horror frissons hardly get a look in. Very beautiful, though." | POS |
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"It can still hold its own against the new generation of horror films still sourcing it. Well worth a look." | POS |
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