KWAIDAN 怪談 (1964)
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
183 minutes
Four ghost stories by American expatriate Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904): When he adds a second wife, Rentar Mikuni finds a skeleton at the feast; woodcutter Tatsuya Nakadai (star of Kobayashi's Harakiri and Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Ran) meets a strange woman in the snow; a blind biwa player gives a command performance for a spirit; an apparition appears in a cup of tea. Kobayashi's first color film, with an eerie score by the great Tōru Takemitsu ( Ran , Harakiri , Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes , etc.).