Kaidan

Kwaidan (怪談, Kaidan, 1965) is an anthology film directed by Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi and is based on Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales. The film is split into four separate, discontinuous stories: "The Black Hair," "The Woman of the Snow (Yuki-onna)," "Hoichi, the Earless (Mimi nashi Hoichi)," and "In a Cup of Tea." "The Black Hair" was adapted from "The Reconciliation" that appeared in Hearn's collection Shadowings (1900), the middle two were adapted from his Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903), while the last was adapted from his Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902).

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