This Horror Samurai Film Is Still One of the Most Haunting FIlms Ever Made 60 Years Later

Nothing says that an art piece managed to pass the test of time like the fact that, even more than 60 years later, that piece is still talked about and regularly appears in various lists of the most influential works in cinema. This is precisely the case with Masaki Kobayashi 's Kwaidan , which remains an Oscar-nominated, undisputed staple in more than one genre tradition, despite having been released in 1964. The film is the ultimate example of the supernatural subgenre, as even its title aptly suggests: "kwaidan" is an archaic version of the word "kaidan," literally meaning " ghost story ." In Kobayashi's film, we actually get four of those, since it is also one of the notable examples of an anthology horror film, which already existed at the time, but didn't appear all tha