Kwaidan / Kaidan (1964)

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Plot Summary: This film contains four distinct, separate 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": Stranded in a snowstorm, 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, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something. "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.

Reviews: IMDB | Classic-Horror.com

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/
Rating: 8.0/10 (1,251 votes)
Awards & Nominations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/awards

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Cast overview:
Rentaro Mikuni .... Husband (Black Hair)
Michiyo Aratama .... First wife (Black Hair)
Misako Watanabe .... Second Wife (Black Hair)
Tatsuya Nakadai .... Mi nokichi (The Woman in the Snow)
Keiko Kishi .... Yuki the Snow Maiden (The Woman in the Snow)
Katsuo Nakamura .... Hoichi (Hoichi the Earless)
Tetsuro Tamba .... Warrior (Hoichi the Earless)
Kanemon Nakamura .... Kannai, a Guard (In a Cup of Tea)
Osamu Takizawa .... Author/Narrator (In a Cup of Tea)

Title: Kwaidan / Kaidan (1964)
Source: DVD Retail / R1, NTSC / Eureka - MoC #29
Size: 1,565,642,570 bytes (1/3 DVDR)
Runtime: 03:03:11
Format: Matroska

Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.530)
Video Bitrate: 1028 Kbps
Resolution: 672x272
Aspect Ratio: 2.47       Audio Codec: Vorbis, stereo (aoTuV b4.51)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps   Audio Bitrate: q4, ~128Kbps
Language: Japanese       Audio Sampling Rate: 48KHz
Subtitles (Softsubs): English (VobSub)
Chapters Select: Yes, English named

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antropomorphic · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:53 pm **Post subject:**

wow,this looks awesome!!

thx m8 :beerchug:

Dr Phibes · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:08 pm **Post subject:**

Very nice thanx :beerchug:

moviepirate2006 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:08 pm **Post subject:**

Looks interesting..I might have a look at this one so thanks

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:41 am **Post subject:**

looks great, do you know if this is compatible with the xbox? Its a bit hit and miss on x264 atm
(damn, gonna have to get used to asking that)

anxeiously waiting your reply

elguaxo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:15 am **Post subject:**

Haha! I am pretty sure this will work. The bitrate of the video and audio are rather low and the resolution not to extreme. Someone at scifi.dead-donkey told me he could watch Logan's Run with an XBox, an it had a higher resolution and bitrate. So I think this will work!

Anamorphic videos definitively don't work, but this one is a very good candidate.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:30 am **Post subject:**

what the smeg then, i guess i'll let you know if it doesnt :lol:

elguaxo · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:54 pm **Post subject:**

Now I am anxious... does it work with your XBox?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:00 pm **Post subject:**

Well it plays, but it corrupts visually and looks like you get when ffdshow tries to play a codec that it doesn't support (colour bleeding), So that's a no, not on the build i've got on atm.

I will update to the 6/6/6 XBMC release, which is the latest version i've seen and see if that improves matters. There's every chance it might.

Union.Simon.616 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:21 am **Post subject:**

If it doesn't, there's always 2CD XviD Fragment rip.

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antropomorphic · **Posted:** Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:37 pm **Post subject:**

finally made time to watch this, and one word...stunning
one of the best things i've seen in a long time,I can't believe it's over 40 years old; it just looks so...awesome

great post m8 :mrgreen:

vnorske · **Posted:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:15 pm **Post subject:**

I love the funeral stuff!

Conky · **Posted:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:38 pm **Post subject:**

Union.Simon.616 wrote:

If it doesn't, there's always 2CD XviD Fragment rip.

wargand · **Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:42 pm **Post subject:**

Cancelled. Too slow download speed for a 1.5 GB file.

elguaxo · **Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:46 pm **Post subject:**

If you can wait, I can reshare it again this weekend, I mean the MKV/H264 version.

wargand · **Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:49 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks, but I already cancelled it. Usually I don't start downloads > 700 MB on edonkey. Maybe I see this one on bittorrent someday.

antropomorphic · **Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:08 pm **Post subject:**

why cancel a download,after all,you don't need to sit in front of your screen till it's complete :wink:

wargand · **Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:33 pm **Post subject:**

antropomorphic wrote:

why cancel a download,after all,you don't need to sit in front of your screen till it's complete :wink:

Waste of hd space for longer than I can tolerate since I am using primarily bittorrent.

antropomorphic · **Posted:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:45 am **Post subject:**

get a bigger hd :wink:

kabalizo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:57 am **Post subject:**

excellent movie... this one is a keeper.

Kwaidan / Kaidan (1964)

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