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Spotlight on KWAIDAN with Grady Hendrix

Spotlight on KWAIDAN with Grady Hendrix • 6m 28s

In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic and author Grady Hendrix explores Masaki Kobayashi’s rapturous anthology of ghost stories, a meticulously crafted, existentially frightening tribute to Japanese folklore.

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    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan

    Directed by Masaki Kobayashi • 1965 • Japan
    Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura

    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...

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