Kwaidan [30959] Released: 1965-01-06 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 183 mins Popularity: 2.8762 Vote Average: 7.7 Vote Count: 407 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 perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup. Cast [75] Michiyo AratamaFirst Wife Rentaro MikuniHusband Misako WatanabeSecond Wife Kenjirō IshiyamaFather Ranko AkagiMother Fumie Kitahara Kappei Matsumoto Yoshiko Ieda Otome Tsukimiya Kenzō Tanaka Kiyoshi Nakano Tatsuya NakadaiMinokichi Keiko KishiYuki the Snow Maiden Yūko MochizukiMinokichi's Mother Kin SugaiVillage Woman Noriko SengokuVillage Woman Akiko Nomura Torahiko Hamada Jun Hamamura Katsuo NakamuraHoichi Tetsuro TambaWarrior Takashi ShimuraHead Priest Yoichi HayashiAttendant Eiko MuramatsuKenreiinmon Kunie TanakaYasaku Kazuo KitamuraTomomori Ichirō Nakatani Masanori Tomotake Tokue Hanazawa Shizue NatsukawaTokiko Shin Tatsuoka Makiko Kitashiro Masakazu Kuwayama Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru Akira TaniHuntsman #2 Yōsuke KondōBenkei Kiyoshi Yamamoto Kinji Omino Atsuo Nakamura Ginzô Sekiguchi Akio Miyabe Gen'ya Nagai Toru Uchida Hikaru Jinno Toshio Fukuhara Kirô Abe Toshiro Yagi Yuriko Abe Yuri Satô Kyōichi Satō Nobuo Aikawa Taiji Kodama Nobuaki Maeda Teruhiko Shibata Haruo Kaji Michio Gina Seiji Tabe Mitsuko Narita Noriko Mikura Aiko Nagayama Michiko Nakahata Kan'emon NakamuraKannai Osamu TakizawaAuthor / Narrator Haruko SugimuraMadame Noboru NakayaShikibu Heinai Seiji MiyaguchiOld Man Kei SatōGhost Samurai Shigeru Kōyama Jun TazakiKannai's Colleague # Junkichi Orimoto Akiji Kobayashi Yoshirō Aoki Isao Tamagawa Hideyo Amamoto Ganjirō Nakamura IIPublisher Trailers KWAIDAN (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer Ernest Dickerson on KWAIDAN