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Kwaidan

Kwaidan (Kaidan). Masaki Kobayashi, 1965.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #90, released 2015. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 183 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Kobayashi’s Kwaidan is an anthology of four films adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things:

The Black Hair (Kurokami)
The Woman of the Snow (Yukionna)
Hoichi the Earless (Miminashi Hōichi no Hanashi)
In a Cup of Tea (Chawan no Naka)