
Kwaidan
(1965)
Horror, Fantasy, Drama
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183min
77.14%
Overview
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to pe ...
Michiyo Aratama
Acting
Rentaro Mikuni
Acting
Misako Watanabe
Acting

First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Michiyo Aratama
Popularity : 0.4545

Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
Rentaro Mikuni
Popularity : 0.6531

Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Misako Watanabe
Popularity : 0.7305

Father (segment "The Black Hair")
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Popularity : 0.2663
Mother (segment "The Black Hair")
Ranko Akagi
Popularity : 0.1567

(segment "The Black Hair")
Fumie Kitahara
Popularity : 0.2759
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kappei Matsumoto
Popularity : 0.3866
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Yoshiko Ieda
Popularity : 0.1114

(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Otome Tsukimiya
Popularity : 0.1285
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kenzō Tanaka
Popularity : 0.077
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Nakano
Popularity : 0.0431

Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Tatsuya Nakadai
Popularity : 1.1895

Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Keiko Kishi
Popularity : 0.5255

Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Yūko Mochizuki
Popularity : 0.2474

Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Kin Sugai
Popularity : 0.3451

Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Noriko Sengoku
Popularity : 0.4519

(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Akiko Nomura
Popularity : 0.3032

(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Torahiko Hamada
Popularity : 0.2002

(segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Jun Hamamura
Popularity : 0.2999

Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Katsuo Nakamura
Popularity : 0.9422

Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Tetsuro Tamba
Popularity : 1.2187

Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Takashi Shimura
Popularity : 1.0233

Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Yoichi Hayashi
Popularity : 0.334

Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Eiko Muramatsu
Popularity : 0.1671

Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Kunie Tanaka
Popularity : 0.913
Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Kazuo Kitamura
Popularity : 0.2673

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ichirō Nakatani
Popularity : 0.4668
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Masanori Tomotake
Popularity : 0.0071

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Tokue Hanazawa
Popularity : 0.3318

Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shizue Natsukawa
Popularity : 0.296
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shin Tatsuoka
Popularity : 0.1179
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Makiko Kitashiro
Popularity : 0.24
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Masakazu Kuwayama
Popularity : 0.2586
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
Popularity : 0.1269
Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akira Tani
Popularity : 0.3603

Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yōsuke Kondō
Popularity : 0.3455

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Popularity : 0.152
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kinji Omino
Popularity : 0.0239

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Atsuo Nakamura
Popularity : 0.3566
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Popularity : 0.0685
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akio Miyabe
Popularity : 0.0832
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Gen'ya Nagai
Popularity : 0.0286
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toru Uchida
Popularity : 0.0932
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Hikaru Jinno
Popularity : 0
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshio Fukuhara
Popularity : 0.0214
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kirô Abe
Popularity : 0.0336
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshiro Yagi
Popularity : 0.0071
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuriko Abe
Popularity : 0.154
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuri Satô
Popularity : 0

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kyōichi Satō
Popularity : 0.2557
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuo Aikawa
Popularity : 0.0214
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Taiji Kodama
Popularity : 0.0379
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuaki Maeda
Popularity : 0.0214
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Teruhiko Shibata
Popularity : 0.0377
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Haruo Kaji
Popularity : 0.0261
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michio Gina
Popularity : 0.0387
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Seiji Tabe
Popularity : 0.0214
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mitsuko Narita
Popularity : 0.0214
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Noriko Mikura
Popularity : 0.0214

(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Aiko Nagayama
Popularity : 0.3411
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michiko Nakahata
Popularity : 0.0682

Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Kan'emon Nakamura
Popularity : 0.3334

Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Osamu Takizawa
Popularity : 0.3157

Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Haruko Sugimura
Popularity : 0.4907

Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Noboru Nakaya
Popularity : 0.302
Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Seiji Miyaguchi
Popularity : 0.8007

Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Kei Satō
Popularity : 0.4489

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Shigeru Kōyama
Popularity : 0.4848

Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Jun Tazaki
Popularity : 0.5303

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Junkichi Orimoto
Popularity : 0.4463

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Akiji Kobayashi
Popularity : 0.4854

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Yoshirō Aoki
Popularity : 0.2403

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Isao Tamagawa
Popularity : 0.2751

(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto
Popularity : 0.6679

Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Popularity : 0.2588