Onibaba (film)
1965
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91% Tomatometer 46 Reviews 90% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai ...
[Kwaidan] combines the fantastic color of Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits with Poe-like burstings of Gothic horror. Full Review | Sep 20, 2021
- Synopsis
- Picture 9/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
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 ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted...
Criterion upgrades their previous DVD edition of Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidanto Blu-ray, now delivering the full 183-minute version (whereas the previous DVD was the more common “foreign” 161-minute version). It is again presented in its original aspect ratio of about 2.35:1 on a dual-layer disc. The new transfer was taken from new 2K scans of the or...
The Blu-ray sports a lossless Japanese PCM 1.0 mono track. There’s still a faint but audible background hiss in places but the materials are otherwise in great shape and there are no pops, drops, or cracks. The sound design to the film is very understated and minimal, with music and sound effects being used sparingly in order to create mood. Dialog...
I was always surprised that Criterion’s previous DVD was essentially a barebones release, sporting only a handful of trailers. Criterion now gives it a far more deserving special edition. As noted before this edition features the longer 183-minute cut, which was Kobayashi’s preferred version. A feature on here does go over the different cuts of the...
Delivering some great supplements and a terrific transfer, fans and admirers of the film should have no qualms about picking this edition up. It’s a sharp upgrade. BUY AT:
Kwaidan is just another in a series of absolutely brilliant films he did in the 60's. Beautiful, creepy, poetic, atmospheric as hell; it is the work of a master cinematician and one of the best Japanese movies you're likely to see.
Mar 19, 2021 · Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (literally translated as “ghost stories”) is an anthology of Japanese folk tales, adapted from various stories collected in the writings of Lafcadio Hearn. The film consists of four of these tales, all of which of course involve ghosts, spirits, or the other-worldly.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Kwaidan holds an approval rating of 91%, based on 46 reviews, and an average rating of 7.9/10. Its consensus reads: "Exquisitely designed and fastidiously ornate, Masaki Kobayashi's ambitious anthology operates less as a frightening example of horror and more as a meditative tribute to Japanese folklore."
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Mar 26, 2020 · Film Review: Kwaidan (1965) by Masaki Kobayashi. Based on four ghost stories from books of Lafcadio Hearn, Masaki Kobayashi 's first effort in the genre and in color film was a huge success, netting him the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
