• Kwaidan (Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. 'Ghost Stories') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories...
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    Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story...
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  • Kaidan (怪談, Kaidan) is a 2007 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. It centers on two young lovers who are haunted by the ghost of a murdered...
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  • Kaidan (怪談, sometimes transliterated kwaidan) is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (kai) meaning "strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparition"...
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  • School Ghost Stories (学校の怪談, Gakkō no Kaidan), also known as Haunted School, is a 1995 Japanese horror film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It follows...
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  • Gakkō no Kaidan 2) is a 1996 Japanese horror film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It is the second installment in the Gakkō no Kaidan film series, following...
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  • horror film and subsequent franchise, based on books by Toru Tsunemitsu Gakkō no Kaidan 2, a 1996 sequel film School Ghost Stories 3, a 1997 sequel film Gakkō...
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  • Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Yūrei Mansion (怪談新耳袋劇場版 幽霊マンション; Tales of Terror: The Haunted Apartment) is a Japanese horror film of the Tales of Terror from...
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  • Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (怪談累が渕, Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi) (Ghost Story of Kasane Swamp), also known as The Depths, or The Ghost of Kasane, is a 1957 black-and-white/...
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    Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談, Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masaki Mori. It is a Japanese horror film based on the Japanese...
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  • Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1959 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. It was among...
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  • Look up kaidan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kaidan is a Japanese ghost story or horror story. Kaidan or Kwaidan may also refer to: Kwaidan: Stories...
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  • in Issue #29 when Kaidan and Scylla's ghost bring him out of retirement. Kaidan/Keiko Of Japanese ancestry, the women of Kaidan's family can summon powerful...
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  • Ghost Stories (学校の怪談, Gakkō no Kaidan), also known as Ghosts at School, is a 2000 Japanese anime series directed by Noriyuki Abe and produced by Pierrot...
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    developed, inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories (kaidan) such as Yotsuya Kaidan as well as classical Japanese woodcut prints with themes of...
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  • Kaidan Restaurant (怪談レストラン, Kaidan Resutoran) is a Japanese children's storybook series. The books take the form of horror anthologies, edited by Miyoko...
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  • Ghost Stories (Japanese: 学校の怪談, Hepburn: Gakkō no Kaidan, lit. "School Ghost Stories"), also known as Ghosts at School, is a Japanese series of children's...
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  • Haunted School 4 (学校の怪談4, Gakkō no Kaidan 4) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Mai Toyoda as Yae Anzai Toshiteru Hirose as Kou Anzai...
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    In the beginning of the Shōwa period (1926–1989), kaidan films such as Saga Kaibyōden (伝) and Kaidan Saga Yashiki (敷) became quite popular. Actresses like...
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  • School Ghost Stories 3 (学校の怪談3, Gakkō no Kaidan 3) is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. The film is about elementary school children who...
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  • Verdi's Requiem. The song used during the end credits, "Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan o" by the rap rock band Dragon Ash, is not included in either the Japanese...
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  • the Stairs (Japanese: 女が階段を上る時, Hepburn: Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. Keiko (called "Mama" by...
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    New Version of the Ghost of Yotsuya (1949) a.k.a. Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan; filmed in two parts Carmen Comes Home (1951); in Color The Idiot (1951); in...
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  • Ring, in 2002. Japan portal Film portal 1990s portal List of ghost films Don't Look Up (1996 film) Ju-On Yotsuya Kaidan Galbraith IV 2008, p. 402. "Back...
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    (牡丹燈籠, The Peony Lantern) is a Japanese ghost story (kaidan) and one of the most famous kaidan in Japan. The plot involves sex with the dead and the...
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  • Guazzoni Akakabe Myojin (aka Kaibyo Kaidan) a Ghost-Cat film starring Matsunosuke Onoe, produced by Nikkatsu Films Izumo Kaidan (Japanese) aka Ghost Story of...
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  • (Japanese: 渋谷怪談, Hepburn: Shibuya kaidan) is a 2004 Japanese horror and thriller film directed by Kei Horie. The film stars Asami Mizukawa, Shūji Kashiwabara...
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  • Gakkō no Kaidan (学校の階段, lit. The School's Staircase) is a Japanese light novel series by Takaaki Kaima with illustrations by Amane Amahuku. The first novel...
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  • Illusion of Blood (四谷怪談, Yotsuya kaidan, lit. "Yotsuya ghost story") is a 1965 Japanese drama and horror film directed by Shirō Toyoda. Tatsuya Nakadai...
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    ("kaidan") classics: Kaidan botan dōrō (based on Botan Dōrō (牡丹灯籠, The Peony Lantern), and Shinkei Kasane ga fuchi (on which many Japanese horror films...
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