In this interview, shot in 2015, KWAIDAN assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara discusses working with director Masaki Kobayashi and the original, 183-minute version of the film.
In the nineteenth century, writer Lafcadio Hearn played a crucial role in popularizing Japanese folklore for Western audiences. Four of his stories provided the basis for Masaki Kobayashi’s KWAIDAN. In this piece, made in 2015, English literature scholar Christopher Benfey, editor of “Lafcadio He...
