Sunday, October 24, 2010

31 Frights #24: KWAIDAN [1965]

Greek/Irish expatriate Lafcadio Hearn is best remembered for his 1903 collection of Japanese folk tales of the supernatural; Masaki Kobayashi’s later film adaptation won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Slow but engrossing, with stunning ‘scope photography and a fascinating electronic score by Toru Takemitsu that twists natural sounds into eerie harbingers of doom.

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