小林正樹
is a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly "" (1904), for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. "Kwaidan" is an archaic transliteration of the term "kaidan", meaning "ghost story". The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.