says he will play to console the sorrowful spirits and allow them to rest. The narrator indicates than many wealthy noble persons would come to the temple with large gifts of money and Hoichi-the-earless became a wealthy person. "In a Cup of Tea" is adapted from Hearn's Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902). Anticipating a visit from his publisher, a writer relates an old tale of an attendant of Lord Nakagawa Sadono named Sekinai. While Lord Nakagawa is on his way to make a New Year's visit, he halts with his train at a tea-house in Hakusan. While the party is resting there, Sekinai sees the face of a strange man in a cup of tea. Despite being perturbed, he drinks the cup. Later, while Sekinai is guarding his Lord, the man whose face appeared in the tea reappears, calling himself Heinai Shikibu. Sekinai runs to tell the other attendants, but they laugh and tell him he is seeing things. Later that night at his own residence, Sekinai is visited by three ghostly attendants of Heinai Shikibu. He duels them and is nearly defeated, but the author notes the tale ends before things are resolved and suggests that he could write a complete ending, but prefers to leave the ending to the reader's imagination. The publisher soon arrives and asks the Madame for the author, who is nowhere to be found. They both flee the scene in terror when they discover the author trapped inside a large jar of water. Cast Kurokami Michiyo Aratama as First wife Misako Watanabe as Second Wife Rentarō Mikuni as Husband Kenjiro Ishiyama as Father Ranko Akagi as Mother Yuki-Onna Tatsuya Nakadai as Minokichi Keiko Kishi as the Yuki-Onna Yūko Mochizuki as Minokichi's mother Kin Sugai as Village woman Noriko Sengoku as Village woman Miminashi Hōichi no Hanashi Katsuo Nakamura as Hoichi Tetsurō Tamba as Warrior Takashi Shimura as Head priest Yoichi Hayashi as Minamoto no Yoshitsune Kazuo Kitamura as Taira no Tomomori Yōsuke Kondō as Benkei Chawan no naka Haruko Sugimura as Madame Osamu Takizawa as Author / Narrator Nakamura Ganjirō II as Publisher Noboru Nakaya as Shikibu Heinai Seiji Miyaguchi as Old man Kei Satō as Ghost samurai Production While he was a student, producer Shigeru Wakatsuki, founder, and CEO of Ninjin Club, converted the idea of a film adaptation of Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In 1964, Toho