Kaidan (1964) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay FLAC1.0 x264-IDE

Posted on October 30, 2015

Kaidan / Kwaidan / Ghost Stories / Hoichi the Earless / Weird Tales (1964)

Fantasy | Horror

This film contains four stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": A woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea…

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Aratama, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi

IMDb Info

TechInfo:
Kaidan.1964.720p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-IDE

Source : Kaidan 1964 1080p Blu-ray AVC LPCM 1.0 (thanks raminmehr)
Length : 3h 3mn
Chapters : Included
Video Bitrate : 11.0 Mbps
Format Profile Level : High@L4.1
Resolution : 1280 x 534 pixels
Framerate : 23.976 fps
Audio : Japanese FLAC 1.0 @ 187 Kbps
Audio 2 : English AAC 1.0 @ -q 0.30 – Commentary by Film Historian Stephen Prince
Subtitles : Eng (srt)

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