My Favorite Movies

Oh, what a wonderful film! The mood was very atmospheric and the setting idyllic - apart from the ruggedness of the rock. Indeed, they were living such a perfect prelapsarian existence (except for poor Sara) before that rock got a hold on them. Some of the girls were such sweet, pretty and innocent little things I could've just eaten them up. I am not at all surprised that Sara is so smitten with Miranda. Who wouldn't be?

I love the way everything was left unresolved. *SPOILERY*
I was a little concerned when Irma was discovered that everything would be ruined by having the mystery solved, but luckily she remembered nothing.

Btw, have any of you who have seen this noticed the faces? The sad, disgruntled faces etched into the stone?

They could've spent more time on telling about Sabina's final years and, perhaps, about how she affected Jung and Freud's work. Otherwise, a wonderful movie.

Kaidan is the word for a Japanese ghost story. This film consists of four such stories: Black Hair, The Snow Woman, Hoichi the Earless and In a Cup of Tea, all of which are based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales. The stories progress, in my opinion, from the scary to the simply peculiar, though none of them are - of course - horror in the sense that we the Westeners perceive it.

This film is absolutely beautiful. The eyes in the sky, the blood red waters, the well at night and the bell by evening - even the way the three men position themselves in the last story has its own kind of beauty to it - not to mention the wonderful biwa music and the long, luxurious black hair of many of the women.