Kaidan [Kwaidan aka Ghost Strories] 1964 DVDRip x264 AAC-BeLLBoY (Kingdom-Release)

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Release Title: Kaidan [Kwaidan aka Ghost Strories] 1964 DVDRip x264 AAC-BeLLBoY (Kingdom-Release)



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IMDb rating: 8.0/10  (4,108 votes)



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Movie information:



Release Date: 31/07/2010

Release Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Storyline: For the first time in the West, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the complete 183-minute original Japanese cut of Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan — one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural fantasy films ever made.



Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s classic Japanese ghost stories. For this lavish, ‘scope production, Kobayashi drew extensively on his own training as a student of painting and the fine arts. Indeed, the breadth of the film’s poetic expression is unmatched in all of Japanese cinema: breathtakingly photographed on handpainted sets, the film is at once a miniature writ large, and an abstract wash of luminescent colours that seem to hail from another world. On the soundtrack, an electronic score by avant-garde composer Toru Takemitsu plays hauntingly with the natural sounds — crickets, rain, the cracking of wood, the loud silence of snow. This interaction of the film’s plastic and aural textures with the simple, aching humanity of Hearn’s tales serves to accentuate the power of the storytelling: four episodes about mortals caught up in forces beyond their comprehension — when the supernatural world intervenes in their lives. Perhaps the definitive adaptation of Hearn’s work, Kwaidan also presents the author’s most emblematic tale — “Hoichi, the Earless”, in which a blind young monk journeys every night to an abandoned graveyard, compelled by the ghosts of a famous battle to retell their story, over and over again…



Starring Tatsuya Nakadai (Yojimbo, The Face of Another, Harakiri), this complete print of Kwaidan — incorporating 21 minutes of footage never before released to Western audiences — also includes the uncut version of “The Snow Maiden”, in which a woodcutter marries a woman whose true calling is to wander enveloped in swirling snowflakes, bringing death to mortals. The episode marks the apotheosis of the film’s eerie atmosphere — anticipating, and arguably surpassing, Japanese cinema’s recent excursions in the realm of “J-horror”. Over forty years on, Kobayashi’s film remains an unparalleled achievement.





Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi



Cast:

Michiyo Aratama

Misako Watanabe

Katsuo Nakamura

Rentarô Mikuni

Keiko Kishi

Tatsuya Nakadai



Genre: Fantasy | Horror

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Original Source: DVD9 NTSC Masters of Cinema #29 (thanks to M6mmix at Bit-HQ)

Total Size: 2.10 GB





Video Specs



Format: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

Bitrate: 1400 kbps

Encoding: 2 Pass

Resolution: 720 x 288 pixels

Quality Factor (QF): 0.282

Frame Rate: 23.976 fps

Size: 1.84 GiB (88%)





Audio Specs



Type: Advanced Video Codec (AAC LC)

Bitrate: 192 kbps

Sample Rate: 48.0 KHz [both]

Channels: 2 channels; Front: L R

Size: 259 MiB (12%)





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Has this torrent been fixed yet?
Wow, this torrent is a disaster, lol! i just looked at it again and discovered that the audio is also out of sync. The voices come a second before the actors mouths move, so it has the feel of a cheaply dubbed Godzilla flick. Which is a shame because the picture quality is amazing. I'm not complaining (nobody loves and appreciates Kickasstorrents more than me), i'm just trying to save somebody from wasting time..
That is such a shame this torrent has the most seeders.
I forgot to add that the uploader of this screwed up torrent has included 6 minutes worth of trailers; BEFORE the film begins. They cannot be removed or skipped over. Keep in mind if you manage to find the correct subtitles on line, to sync them so they start 6 minutes later. The funny thing is that the trailers are perfectly subtitled, making it look like they are correct. but as soon as the film itself begins they start to mess up immediately. About 30% of the dialog is inexplicably without subtitles! It makes no sense.
Not only are the subtitles out of sync, but they are incomplete, possibly even for the wrong film. none of the narration is subtitled, and there is alot of narration. and finding the correct subs won't be easy as there are 2 different cuts of this film. Oh well, another wasted blank dvd. From now on I think I will watch every film in it's entirety before burning it.
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