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EL MÁS ALLÁ (KAIDAN)

Year of production
1964
Duration
161 min.
Genres
Fiction
Sitges Clàssics

Synopsis

Masaki Kobayashi's first color film is a masterpiece that adapts four horror stories from traditional Japanese tales compiled by Greek-Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn. In these stories, the line between the living and the dead becomes blurred, celebrating the supernatural in Japanese folklore. Kobayashi's film is one of the biggest inspirations for modern J-Horror.

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi

Multimedia

Technical sheet

Section
Sitges Clàssics - Focus Macros Ocultas

Japan. 1964
162 min

Director
Masaki Kobayashi

Writer
Yôko Mizuki

Cinematography
Yoshio Miyajima    

Editor
Hisashi Sagara

With
Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuo Nakamura

Production countries
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Subtitle languages
Anglès, Castellà, Català

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