About this episode
Josh and Drusilla take in the enormous beauty of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1964 anthology film, Kwaidan. From wiki: “ 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 from Lafcadio Hearn 's collections of Japanese folk tales , mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories . Kwaidan is an archaic transliteration of the term kaidan , meaning "ghost story". Receiving critical acclaim, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival , [5] and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . [6] Also discussed: Alien: Romulus , pinball, Strange Darling , production design, Jacques Demy, Lady Snowblood , Tales from the Crypt comics, Raw Dawn Chong and Tales from the Darkside (the movie), Conan the Barbarian , Crying in H Mart , Agnes Varda, Nothing But Trouble , and more! NEXT WEEK: Daughters of Darkness (1971) Follow them across the internet: Bloodhaus: https://www.bloodhauspod.com/ https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/ Joshua Conkel https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/