SAM Films

Second Thursday Japanese Films Kwaidan: A Woman in the Snow and Hoichi the Earless May 9, 2013 7–9 pm Stimson Auditorium

Kwaidan (1964), Dir. Masaki Kobayashi

The Woman in the Snow: Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets a spirit in the form of a woman who spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise.

Hoichi the Earless: A blind musician, living in a monastery sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts.

Other films in this series include:

Free admission during the Blitz Capitol Hill Arts Walk.