Kaidan Horror Classics

Four renowned Japanese directors each adapt a supernatural short story by Japanese literary masters for the KAIDAN HORROR CLASSICS omnibus series. In his adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's THE ARM, Masayuki Ochiai reveals the inner world of fetishists in an eerily unsettling tale of a man who convinces a woman to let him borrow her arm for a night. Meanwhile, Shinya Tsukamoto explores death and unrequited love in Osamu Dazai's THE WHISTLER, about a woman who spies on her dying sister's secret love life after her own romance is dashed by her father. After VILLAIN, Lee Sang-Il looks at social outcasts once again in Ryunosuke Akutagawa's THE NOSE. The story follows a priest with a hideous nose who kills a young local boy in a moment of blinding anger. Meanwhile, Hirokazu Kore-eda creates a gentler ghost tale with Saisei Muro's THE DAYS AFTER, about a married couple who thinks the young boy who visits their house daily may be the ghost of their dead infant son.

Kaidan Horror Classics
Kaidan Horror ClassicsSeries

Details

First aired
23 Aug 2010
Seasons
1
Episodes
4
  • TMDB 6.0
Last aired
26 Aug 2010
Genres
  • Drama
Status
Ended
Network
NHK
Countries
  • JP
Original language
ja
Original title
妖しき文豪怪談
Writers
Hirokazu Kore-edaSang-il LeeMasayuki OchiaiShinya Tsukamoto
Composer
Masato HatanakaYoshihide Otomo

Series