This was kind of a letdown for me after hearing a lot of good things about the movie. I was really impressed by the look of the movie and am interested in the subject matter, but it really left me wanting more. The first and last stories were in my opinion the worst. They were very simple and were not as visually interesting as the other two. "The Black Hair" and "In A Tea Cup" were fairly straightforward stories of ghostly revenge and in my opinion the movie would have been better served to drop them and elaborate on the middle two. The second story (The Lady in the Snow) frustrated me with its ending. The ending bugged me because the man's wife (the lady in the snow) gets all upset and leaves the man threatening to take revenge on him if he does anything to harm their children. I found personally, that him telling his wife the story was much less of a crime then her leaving her own children and then taking the morally superior air that he better be good to them. I really didn't understand her character at all. First she is like some sort of evil ghost then she turns into the perfect wife then all of the sudden she just leaves. What was her motivation for marrying him in the first place? And what was the big deal about him telling the story, especially since it was to her? "He broke his promise"...well so what, why does that matter? She did a lot worse by leaving her happy life and abandoning her children. Very weak. The other story Hoichii the Earless is the best, but maybe only by comparison. One final note about all the stories, is that none of them are scary, I would suspect even audiences in the mid 60s could sit through this no problem. Overall it is worth seeing if you are interested in the subject matter, or want to see something fairly unique. However be warned, it is kind of slow, and is not scary (as it is labeled as horror on this site). I guess I'm glad I saw it once, but I don't think I'll ever have reason to go back to it again.
Review of Kwaidan
