Word: lafcadio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kwaidan. Beauty and boredom are richly intermixed in this trio of Japanese ghost stories by Director Masaki Kobayashi, whose last exercise in horror was the classic Harakiri. The boredom stems from three supernatural tales by Lafcadio Hearn, each unfolding with the grace of a water lily and at approximately the same pace. The beauty lies in the film's imagery, the delicate, dreamlike balance of sound and light and color in every frame...
Died. Kiyoshi Koizumi, 62, youngest son of famed author (and naturalized Japanese) Lafcadio Hearn, a moody artist who, despite his father's preoccupation with Japanese life and folklore, chose to paint in Western style; by his own hand (asphyxiation by gas); in Tokyo...
When I was a cub reporter, 65 years ago, I was taught that there never had been but two outstanding jobs of reporting: 1) Lew Wallace's account of the Ben-Hur chariot race (fictional); 2) Lafcadio Hearn's account of the Gas House [Tannery] Murder in the Cincinnati Enquirer...