Kwaidan is hard to write about. Words and language don't have the brevity and impact as the film media, specially the way it is experienced in Kwaidan. I can list a lot of adjectives about how glorious the movie is, but its beauty is in its felt experience, which will be different for different people. Its horror for some and spiritual for others. Its motivating and frightening, its beautiful and stark, its achingly slow and some moments are threateningly fast. The colors are magical. The expressions of the actors is other-worldly. The silence in the movie gets to be really loud sometimes. There is poetry in the script, with themes of love, faith, betrayal, kept and broken promises, beauty, honor, devotion to art, and much more. It's a must watch!
