Japanese ghost films

[huy.duong@ctsu.ox.ac.uk]

Talking of ghosts, has anyone seen the Japanese film Kwaidan
(Qua'i -Da?n?)? It consists of 4 (?) short stories:
1) A samurai deserted his wife to go and find fame and fortune.
Years later he came back and found his wife at the loom who welcomed him,
forgave him and loved him. The next morning he woke to find himself
sleeping by the skeleton of his wife.
2) A woodcutter met a ghost in the forest who let him live on condition
that he must not tell anyone of the encounter. Later he married a
beautiful woman who was a perfect wife to him. Years later, during
a stormy night, a flash of lighting lit up his wife's face in a way
that the man recognised that it was the ghost he had met. He told her.
She almost killed him but relented because of the chilren, and left.
...
These stories have a kind of simple elegance to them and the films are superb.
Huy