Japanese New Wave: Kwaidan (1964) at Moxie Cinema

Name: Japanese New Wave: Kwaidan (1964) at Moxie Cinema
Start: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Moxie Cinema

Schedule

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Moxie Cinema | Springfield, MO

"A film you will not soon forget." (Arizona Republic) Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. KWAIDAN (1964) screens Wednesday, October 29 @ 7pm, part of the Japanese New Wave series at Moxie Cinema. The Japanese New Wave series is Free for Moxie Members. Tickets on sale now!
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. [Criterion]
[Kwaidan]—not quite comparable to any other film, regardless of genre or country of origin, and unique in Kobayashi's oeuvre—defies easy categorization. That is perhaps why it has remained for countless viewers such a singular experience, clinging to memory like an unshakable dream, a glimpse into some alternate zone where light falls differently on faces, time moves by a different measure, and terror blends disturbingly with beauty. [Criterion]