An impoverished samurai abandons his loving wife, only to discover a horrible truth upon his return home. A young woodcutter marries a beautiful stranger, and breaks a promise that spells his doom. A blind musician plays for a spectral audience, learning the cost of beauty in the bargain. A martial retainer makes an unlikely enemy, setting him on a path towards an uncertain fate. So proceed the strange tales of Kwaidan, a masterpiece of folk horror cinema directed by Masaki Kobayashi, and adapted from the collections of Japanese folklore transcribed by writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn.

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