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Film

Essays on films I have seen, mostly old ones on the big screen, and what they have to say about culture and philosophy.

Film · Japan · Philosophy Kwaidan: Strange Tales of Nature and WarMasaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is usually filed under horror. Seen on a big screen, its four ghost stories read better as mysteries: about a nature full of spirits, and about the dead of a lost war. October 18, 2026 · 37 min read