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Criterion’s ‘Kwaidan’ Set Provides Four Masterful Tales of the Uncanny
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Criterion’s ‘Kwaidan’ Set Provides Four Masterful Tales of the Uncanny

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 / 11 December 2015
Masaki Kobayashi’s masterpiece, Kwaidan, exists on the boundary between the living and the spirit worlds.
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The Bette Davis of Japan and Her Performance in ‘The Life of Oharu’

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 / 15 August 2013
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Masaki Kobayashi’s Challenges Japan’s Idealized Notions of Its Feudal Past with ‘Harakiri’

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 / 30 November 2011