Performers:
Mitsuru Hirata, Sei Ashina, Haruka Igawa, Ryō Kase, Yu-ri Sung, Jun Kunimura, Yutaka Matsushige, 河井青葉, Maiko YamadaPlots(1)
The NHK television station wanted to pay tribute to kaidan, making four famous filmmakers a proposal to direct screen versions of four different stories. In Kata-ude, Masayuki Ochiai adapts a strange, suggestive story by Yasunari Kawabata where a man asks a beautiful woman to lend him her arm to get through the night. In Nochi no Hi, Hirokazu Kore-eda proposes a married couple's encounter with a mysterious boy who might be the ghost of their deceased son. With Hana Lee Sang-il goes back to the Heian period in the story of a monk, victim of humiliations because of his enormous, deformed nose. And Shinya Tsukamoto proves to be more intimistic than ever in Hazakura to Mateki, the portrayal of a woman and her ambivalent feelings towards her sick sister. (Sitges Film Festival)
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Mitsuru Hirata
Japan
Best movies:
Romantic Prelude (2009)
Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
Not Yet (1993)
Sei Ashina
Japan
Haruka Igawa
Japan
Best movies:
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
Until the Lights Come Back (2005)
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Ryō Kase
Japan
Best movies:
Nobody Knows (2004)
I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Yu-ri Sung
Japan
Best movies:
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
The 8-Year Engagement (2017)
I Wish (2011)
Jun Kunimura
Japan
Best movies:
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)
Half a Confession (2004)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Yutaka Matsushige
Japan
Best movies:
Eureka (2000)
King Dog (2022)
Crows-Zero (2007)
河井青葉
Japan
Best movies:
Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
My Man (2014)
Maiko Yamada
Japan
Best movies:
Sky High (2003)