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* AnIcePerson: The {{Yukionna}}, who is the personification of freezing to death.
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* AnIcePerson: The {{Yukionna}}, who is the personification of freezing to death.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Yuki-onna seems to truly love the woodcutter and the family she made with him. However, Minokichi's promise to never reveal her existence takes priority over ''everything'' else. The fact that he's revealing her existence to ''herself'' doesn't matter.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The samurai in "Black Hair" eventually realizes his mistake in abandoning his first wife. However, by the time he finally returns, its far ''far'' too late.
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* "Earless Ho'ichi": A blind musician who specialzes in the historical saga "The Tale of the Heike" has to make a command performance.
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* "Earless Ho'ichi": A blind musician who specialzes specializes in the historical saga "The ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfTheHeike The Tale of the Heike" Heike]]'' has to make a command performance.
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* {{Yukionna}}: The title character of "The Woman of the Snow", a snow demon who takes mercy on a young woodcutter.
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* BittersweetEnding: the ending of “Earless Ho’ichi.” Ho’ichi has lost his outer ears and gone through a traumatic experience... but his story makes him famous, he ends up becoming a wealthy singer, and more importantly for him, he has a purpose in life, singing to honor the dead, and hopefully giving them some measure of peace. This is in marked contrast to the other three stories, each of which has a decidedly DownerEnding.
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* BittersweetEnding: the The ending of “Earless Ho’ichi.” Ho’ichi has lost his outer ears and gone through a traumatic experience... but his story makes him famous, he ends up becoming a wealthy singer, and more importantly for him, he has a purpose in life, singing to honor the dead, and hopefully giving them some measure of peace. This is in marked contrast to the other three stories, each of which has a decidedly DownerEnding.
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* VengefulGhost: all of them. Despite some having a benign appearance at first, the spirits in these stories are ''not'' friendly.
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* VengefulGhost: all All of them. Despite some having a benign appearance at first, the spirits in these stories are ''not'' friendly.
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* VengefulGhost: all of them. Despite some having a benign appearance at first, the spirits in these stories are ‘‘not’’ friendly.
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* BittersweetEnding: the ending of “Earless Ho’ichi.” Ho’ichi has lost his outer ears and gone through a traumatic experience... but his story makes him famous, he ends up becoming a wealthy singer, and more importantly for him, he has a purpose in life, singing to honor the dead, and hopefully giving them some measure of peace. This is in marked contrast the the other three stories, each of which has a decidedly DownerEnding.
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* BittersweetEnding: the ending of “Earless Ho’ichi.” Ho’ichi has lost his outer ears and gone through a traumatic experience... but his story makes him famous, he ends up becoming a wealthy singer, and more importantly for him, he has a purpose in life, singing to honor the dead, and hopefully giving them some measure of peace. This is in marked contrast the to the other three stories, each of which has a decidedly DownerEnding.
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* "The Woman of the Snow": A woodcutter (Creator/TatsuyaNakadai) encounters the ''yuki-onna'' spirit and is spared on the condition that he tell no one of his experience.
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* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna, who is the personification of freezing to death.
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* InvisibilityCloak: A variant. Hoichi's master writes a magic inscription all over every inch of his body, which makes him invisible to the spirit of the dead warriror. Unfortunately, the master forgets Hoichi's ears.
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* BilingualBonus: You might be able to guess the ending of 'The Woman of the Snow" anyway, but if you know that "Yuki"--the name of the woodcutter's wife--is the Japanese for "snow", you'll definitely guess the ending.
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* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna.
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* InvisibilityCloak: A variant. Hoichi's master writes a magic inscription all over every inch of his body, which makes him invisible to the spirit of the dead warriror. Unfortunately, the master forgets Hoichi's ears.
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* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or so the woodcutter discovers when his loving wife reveals herself as the ''yuki-onna''.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Or so the woodcutter discovers when his loving wife reveals herself as the ''yuki-onna''.
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* SnowMeansDeath: It certainly does when you're meeting a ''yuki-onna'' snow demon.
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* BoyMeetsGhoul: Or so the woodcutter discovers when his loving wife reveals herself as the ''yuki-onna''.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: In "The Woman of the Snow", a giant eye, presumably a manifestation of the ''yuki-onna'', appears and is watching the woodcutters as they stagger through the blizzard.
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* BedMateReveal: In "Black Hair," the samurai finally returns home to his former wife, and they share a night of passion. [[spoiler: The next morning, he awakens to find that he's lying next to a long-decayed corpse.]]
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* BedMateReveal: In "Black Hair," the samurai finally returns home to his former wife, and they share a night of passion. [[spoiler: The next morning, he awakens to find that he's lying next to a long-decayed corpse.]]
* DutchAngle: Used for most of the final few moments of "Black Hair", after the samurai realizes that his wife is actually a dessicated corpse.
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* PrehensileHair: The samurai in "Black Hair" is obsessed with his former wife's hair, so it shouldn't come as a shock that [[spoiler: he sees the hair coming after him at the end of the episode.]]
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* PrehensileHair: The samurai in "Black Hair" is obsessed with his former wife's hair, so it shouldn't come as a shock that [[spoiler: he sees the hair coming after him at the end of the episode.]]
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* BookEnds: The man's expression as he looks at the reflection at the end of "In a Cup of Tea" echoes that of the samurai at the end of "Black Hair."
* BookEnds: The man's expression as he looks at the reflection at the end of "In a Cup of Tea" echoes that of the samurai at the end of "Black Hair."
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* GoldDigger: The samurai in "Black Hair" is a male variant: he abandons his first wife to marry a woman who can give him access to more wealth and power.
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* PrehensileHair: The samurai in "Black Hair" is obsessed with his former wife's hair, so it shouldn't come as a shock that [[spoiler: he sees the hair coming after him at the end of the episode.]]
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* RuleOfThree: "In a Cup of Tea", the samurai tosses away the water when he sees the stranger's reflection twice, but the third time he drinks.
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* RuleOfThree: "In a Cup of Tea", the samurai tosses away the water when he sees the stranger's reflection twice, but the third time he drinks.drinks.
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* AdaptationExpansion: "Earless Ho'ichi" begins with a retelling of the final Genji-Heike battle, only alluded to in the literary version.
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Kwaidan won a special jury prize at Cannes in 1965 and recieved a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.
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Kwaidan won a special jury prize at Cannes in 1965 and recieved received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.
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A 1964 film directed by Masaki Kobayashi, based on the Japanese ghost stories collected and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The spelling "kwaidan" for "ghost story" is deliberately old-fashioned; the current romanization would be "kaidan."
The film is an anthology of four unrelated stories.
* "Black Hair": A samurai divorces his poor but honest weaver wife to marry the daughter of a prominent family and thus advance his position.
* "The Woman of the Snow": A woodcutter encounters the ''yuki-onna'' spirit and is spared on the condition that he tell no one of his experience.
* "Earless Ho'ichi": A blind musician who specialzes in the historical saga "The Tale of the Heike" has to make a command performance.
* "In a Cup of Tea": An unfinished story about a samurai who sees someone else's reflection, and a possible reason the story was unfinished.
Kwaidan won a special jury prize at Cannes in 1965 and recieved a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.
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* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna.
* ForbiddenFruit: The woodcutter must tell no one of his encounter with the yuki-onna, not even his wife. Eventually, he feels compelled to do it.
* ForegoneConclustion: "Earless Ho'ichi."
* NoEnding: The samurai's story in "In a Cup of Tea.'
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: "In a Cup of Tea."
* RuleOfThree: "In a Cup of Tea", the samurai tosses away the water when he sees the stranger's reflection twice, but the third time he drinks.
The film is an anthology of four unrelated stories.
* "Black Hair": A samurai divorces his poor but honest weaver wife to marry the daughter of a prominent family and thus advance his position.
* "The Woman of the Snow": A woodcutter encounters the ''yuki-onna'' spirit and is spared on the condition that he tell no one of his experience.
* "Earless Ho'ichi": A blind musician who specialzes in the historical saga "The Tale of the Heike" has to make a command performance.
* "In a Cup of Tea": An unfinished story about a samurai who sees someone else's reflection, and a possible reason the story was unfinished.
Kwaidan won a special jury prize at Cannes in 1965 and recieved a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination.
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!!Tropes seen in this film include:
* AnIcePerson: The yuki-onna.
* ForbiddenFruit: The woodcutter must tell no one of his encounter with the yuki-onna, not even his wife. Eventually, he feels compelled to do it.
* ForegoneConclustion: "Earless Ho'ichi."
* NoEnding: The samurai's story in "In a Cup of Tea.'
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: "In a Cup of Tea."
* RuleOfThree: "In a Cup of Tea", the samurai tosses away the water when he sees the stranger's reflection twice, but the third time he drinks.
