Kwaidan 1964
Following the Japanese folklore tradition of Rashomon and Gate of Hell, this anthology—titled after an archaic word for ghost story—adapts four eerie tales. A penniless samurai marries for money, ending in tragedy. A man lost in a blizzard is saved by Yuki, the Snow Maiden, but her rescue exacts a price. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to play for an audience of spirits. Lastly, an author tells of a samurai who sees another warrior’s reflection in his teacup.
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Tatsuya Nakadai
Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Jun Tazaki
Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Kenjirô Ishiyama
Father (segment "The Black Hair")
Takashi Shimura
Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Haruko Sugimura
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Ichirô Nakatani
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kei Satô
Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Keiko Kishi
Yuki the Snow Maiden (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Junkichi Orimoto
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Katsuo Nakamura
Hoichi (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Seiji Miyaguchi
Old Man (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Hideyo Amamoto
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Michiyo Aratama
First Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Noboru Nakaya
Shikibu Heinai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Kin Sugai
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Fumie Kitahara
(segment "The Black Hair")
Rentaro Mikuni
Husband (segment "The Black Hair")
Misako Watanabe
Second Wife (segment "The Black Hair")
Atsuo Nakamura
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Jun Hamamura
(segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Shigeru Kōyama
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Tetsuro Tamba
Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Noriko Sengoku
Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Kunie Tanaka
Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Torahiko Hamada
(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Kazuo Kitamura
Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Aiko Nagayama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akiji Kobayashi
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Akiko Nomura
(segment "The Woman of the Snow") (uncredited)
Yōsuke Kondō
Benkei (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kyōichi Satō
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Publisher (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Kappei Matsumoto
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Isao Tamagawa
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Masakazu Kuwayama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kinji Omino
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Makiko Kitashiro
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Teruhiko Shibata
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yoshirō Aoki
(segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Akio Miyabe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuriko Abe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Osamu Takizawa
Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Tokue Hanazawa
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Akira Tani
Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shin Tatsuoka
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ginzô Sekiguchi
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yoichi Hayashi
Attendant (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Kan'emon Nakamura
Kannai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
Yūko Mochizuki
Minokichi's Mother (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Shizue Natsukawa
Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Ranko Akagi
Mother (segment "The Black Hair")
Kenzō Tanaka
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Kiyoshi Nakano
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Yoshiko Ieda
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Toru Uchida
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Gen'ya Nagai
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Haruo Kaji
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michiko Nakahata
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Eiko Muramatsu
Kenreiinmon (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Otome Tsukimiya
(segment "The Black Hair") (uncredited)
Masanori Tomotake
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshio Fukuhara
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Hikaru Jinno
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Kirô Abe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Toshiro Yagi
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Yuri Satô
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuo Aikawa
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Taiji Kodama
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Nobuaki Maeda
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Michio Gina
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Seiji Tabe
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Noriko Mikura
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Mitsuko Narita
(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
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