Kwaidan

Two-piece japanese color widescreen film Kwaidan director M. Kobajašiho contains four spooky short stories. The first two short stories Black hair and Snow queen are to be placed under the title Kwaidan Black hair, the second pair of Man without ears and a Cup under the name Kwaidan Man without ears Kwaidan include like Rashomon, the few films of the japanese production, which are approaching the western mentality of the remote mental world, without him misrepresent and overly simplify. In Rašomonu is due to the european orientation of the author of a literary master Akuragawwy and, of course, Kurosawovým interpretation. In the case of Kwaidanu built a similar bridge between us and the ancient world of japanese fables English writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). He was of Greek origin, and after a busy life he settled in Japan, he arrived there in 1891, as the correspondent of the american magazine HarpersMagazine.He identifies with the new environment, he became professor of English literature at tokyo university and adopted the japanese name Jakumo Koizumi. Of deep penetration into the japanese civilization originated a large number of short stories, novels and essays, whose seroózností remote any cheap exoticism to Lafcadio Hearn soon proslevil in Europe and America. Masaki Kobayashi completes the literary artwork with sensitivity and discipline, complements it a very interesting composition of colors, his film language is characterized by moderation. The director works with the inconspicuous effects, and their use gives in accordance with Hearnovu writing a method that more clearly stand out fantasknosti, in each episode differently tuned horribleness and the interpenetration of reality with the world of nadskutečna. Kwaidan is an example of excellent unity of style both in color composition, and in editing the song, and in dramatic speeches.With non-violent unifying idea similar to orfeovského theme and the evil consequences of a violent distortion of the world of the dead well brings together the main thing for the western viewer Kwaidan brings, insightful, cultured putting in an old and remote culture, as preserved in folk myths.