Kaidan

Kaidan

Rating

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Release Date

8/4/2007

Runtime

115 mins

Overview

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

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Homepage

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A lush Edo-period ghost story where a doomed romance blossoms in the shadow of an unquiet death, as past sins reach across decades to pull the living toward the river's dark embrace.

Mood

MelancholicRomanticDread-soakedBittersweet

Themes

LoveRevengeGriefFamilyMortality

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyDesaturatedStylized genre

Structure

Framed flashback

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Graphic violence

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