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Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)

"Working from source material by Lafcadio Hearn, Masaki Kobayashi treats his four adaptations to mighty doses of studio artifice to achieve a painterly hyper-reality. Kobayashi’s directorial control of the milieus is total, which is apropos given the fact that Hearn’s stories feature characters in thrall to the whims of outside forces. For what ultimately amounts to slim (in incident, if not necessarily in length) and predictable tales of ghostly infringement on quotidian life whereby the arc"

2017: Films I've Watched in October (31 movies items)

" First Watched 10/1/2017"

My Favorite Films (50 movies items)

" Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi With: Tetsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura Plot: A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes."

Movies Watched in 2017 (91 movies items)

"August 2nd Director: Masaki Kobayashi I wish the last story wasn't as weak as it was. The stories progressively got better and better until then."

“This is my review from chud.com in 2007 you can find the original formatting here; http://www.chud.com/13438/dvd-review-kwaidan-criterion-colection-re”

History of Horror (3743 movies items)

"Released on: 22 November 1965 "