Kwaidan
06/01/1965
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.
Movie Information
Michiyo Aratama
as First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Rentaro Mikuni
as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
Misako Watanabe
as Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Kenjirō Ishiyama
as Father (segment "The Black Hair")
Ranko Akagi
as Mother (segment "The Black Hair")
Fumie Kitahara
as (segment "The Black Hair")
Kappei Matsumoto
as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Yoshiko Ieda
as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Otome Tsukimiya
as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kenzō Tanaka
as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Nakano
as (segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Keiko Kishi
as Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Yūko Mochizuki
as Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Kin Sugai
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Noriko Sengoku
as Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Akiko Nomura
as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Torahiko Hamada
as (segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Jun Hamamura
as (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Katsuo Nakamura
as Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Tetsuro Tamba
as Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Takashi Shimura
as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Yoichi Hayashi
as Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Eiko Muramatsu
as Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Kunie Tanaka
as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Kazuo Kitamura
as Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Ichirō Nakatani
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Masanori Tomotake
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Tokue Hanazawa
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shizue Natsukawa
as Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shin Tatsuoka
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Makiko Kitashiro
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Masakazu Kuwayama
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akira Tani
as Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yōsuke Kondō
as Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kinji Omino
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Atsuo Nakamura
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ginzô Sekiguchi
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akio Miyabe
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Gen'ya Nagai
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toru Uchida
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Hikaru Jinno
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshio Fukuhara
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kirô Abe
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshiro Yagi
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuriko Abe
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuri Satô
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kyōichi Satō
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuo Aikawa
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Taiji Kodama
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuaki Maeda
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Teruhiko Shibata
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Haruo Kaji
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michio Gina
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Seiji Tabe
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mitsuko Narita
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Noriko Mikura
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Aiko Nagayama
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michiko Nakahata
as (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kan'emon Nakamura
as Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Osamu Takizawa
as Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Haruko Sugimura
as Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Noboru Nakaya
as Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Seiji Miyaguchi
as Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Kei Satō
as Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Shigeru Kōyama
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Jun Tazaki
as Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Junkichi Orimoto
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Akiji Kobayashi
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Yoshirō Aoki
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Isao Tamagawa
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
