Kaidan

Interesting varied reviews on this flick. Helps if you’re a fan of the Japanese obake (oh-bah-kay) or ghost story genre. Grew up watching these in Honolulu and we’ve got a vibrant local Japanese and “Nihonjin” i.e., Japanese National population. Kaidan has all my favorite story devices from Yotsuya Kaidan, Ghost of Gasane, Ugetsu, and Kuroneko etc. Murder, guilt, trauma induced insanity, reincarnation, and spiritual revenge are everywhere. Great actors/actresses, even including a famous Kabuki actor (the Shinkichi character). What’s hilarious is the face injuries and subsequent infections that fuel the angry spirits seeking revenge could easily be cured by today’s antibiotics, but that would spoil the story. Overall, a nice homage to obake stories by the director who brought us Ringu. At times, these time honored themes are more coherent than those in Ringu, Ju-On, Reincarnation, and Ichi the Killer.

Kaidan is in english subtitles. The show is dark and has creepy moments that don't really scare. I would say this is far from having any real scream or jump moments in it. The creepness comes from the story and the events. A young man enters a relationship with an older woman. She becomes deathly ill, he tends to her and he begins to move on to a younger woman before his current love is in the grave. She curses him. " I will haunt you the rest of your days and should you marry another woman I will kill her". He flees the village, the ghost follows, she torments him and the girls he falls for, even killing them. Her ghost can't rest until he is hers again.

This has the feeling of a very classic old Japanese ghost story, reminiscent of the tale of Oiwa in many ways. It contains a lot of traditional elements of Japanese folk tales, with themes of grudges that pass down family lines and revenge. It's definitely a "throwback" type of story for people who like that kind of thing, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is expecting a "modern" ghost story.

KAIDAN is apparently an authentic ghost story from Japan, and the production on DVD is typical of such movies made to "keep cool" in the hot, humid summer months. Unfortunately it is named almost the same as a well known collection of ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn published originally in the nineteenth century after he had lived in Japan for some years.The quality of the story on this DVD is not up to the standard of the classic stories. The DVD movie relies a little too much on volume of blood to shock where a little more delicate approach would have done just as well, and runs on a little too long to reach its climax. In short it is just entertainment of a popular sort that missed a chance to be a real ghost story.

This is a story of revenge from a lover after she dies. It takes place in feudal Japan. It was beautifully shot and well told.

I enjoyed it a lot!

In Japan many worship their ancestors as well as many deities and in this case, the sister's father was a victim to this samurai whose son became lover to this elder sister. Although they didn't know each other's parents, the vengeful ghost of the father made her go mad with jealousy which cause all this tragedies. It is in Japanese not as advertised which said it was in English.

A very good movie. It's amazing just how horrible some people can be and how a revengeful love can take over ones life...but in this he brought it on himself...sorry to say.

Les histoires de fantômes sont un grand classique au Japon, plus qu'en Occident. Dans un pays où l'animisme règne depuis des siècles, la notion d'esprit au delà de la mort fait partie des bases de la culture Nippone. C'est ainsi que le film Kwaidan en 1964 était devenu un classique du cinéma Japonais avec de trés belles images, dont Yuki Onna (la Femme des Neiges)En 2007 , le réalisateur Nakata Hideo a voulu renouveler le genre et reprendre le thèmes des fantômes et des esprits vengeurs. Mais n'est pas Kobayashi Masaki qui veut ! Ici le suspense est faible, les images un peu surannées et surtout le montage plat et sans originalité. Assez bizarrement, Nakata a choisi de filmer comme on le faisait au Japon dans les années 50, c'est à dire comme une pièce de théâtre. Hélas le personnage principal est fade, sans caractère et seule Kuroki Hitomi arrive à surnager dans cette longue, trés longue suite d'images où le surnaturel est absent et l'intrigue encore plus !En conclusion, ne perdez pas votre temps avec ce film et regardez plutôt l'original de 1964 Kwaidan !

Horrorfilme Made in Japan können sehr Tide/Soft sein und auf diesem Film trifft dies vollkommen zu.Dieser Film ist Geschmackssache und hat auch einige überraschend gute Momente!

Excelente pelicula es una de mis favoritas, solo en Amazon la pude encontrar. Muy complacida con mi compra. Gracias Amazon!

Llego muy rápido Excelente película, trae subtitulaje en español

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