A great 60′s horror movie directed by the late Masahi Kobayashi called Kwaidan will be featured at the JapanSociety in New York as part of their event this coming October 15, 2010.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1965, this film was adapted from the book by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining his Japanese citizenhip) meaning ‘ghost story’. It contains four seperate stories with surprising ending: The Black Hair, The Woman of the Snow, Hoichi the Earless, and In a Cup of Tea. Some great cast can be seen in each of the chapter including Michiyo Aratama, Rentaro Mikuni (Harakiri, Vengeance is Mine), Keiko Kishi (The Twilight Samurai, Snow Prince) and Tatsuya Nakadai who became Akira Korusawa’s favorite leading man in his movies after a fallout with the legendary actor Toshiro Mifune.

So if you are in need of a break from the gory and bloodsoaked horror out there, this could be the one for you. Very haunting that rely on slow buildup of tension and quite suspense. More details about this Kobayashi masterpiece can be found as well as ticket sale at JS website by clicking here.