Kwaidan (1964)
The title of this 1964 anthology of short films is taken from the Japanese “kaidan”, a word which roughly translates into “strange, mysterious, rare or bewitching apparition” and “talk or recited narrative” — in short, ghost stories. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 and later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The title of this 1964 anthology of short films is taken from the Japanese “kaidan”, a word which roughly translates into “strange, mysterious, rare or bewitching apparition” and “talk or recited narrative” — in short, ghost stories. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 and later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
