In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic and author Grady Hendrix explores Masaki Kobayashi’s rapturous anthology of ghost stories, a meticulously crafted, existentially frightening tribute to Japanese folklore.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi • 1965 • Japan
Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of...