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Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit. "Rain-moon tales") [3] is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.
By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long ...
Feb 21, 2024 · Ugetsu, also known as Tales of Ugetsu or Ugetsu Monogatari (雨月物語, lit. "Rain-moon tales"), is a 1953 Japanese historical drama and fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.
Ugetsu: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. With Machiko Kyô, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori. A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Aug 1, 2021 · Ugetsu, also known as Tales of Ugetsu, The Tales of the Wave after the Rain Moon and Ugetsu Monogatari (雨月物語), is a 1953 Japanese romantic fantasy drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and based on stories in Ueda Akinari's 1776 book of the same name.
May 9, 2004 · Ugetsu. Comedy. 94 minutes ‧ 1953. Roger Ebert. May 9, 2004. 7 min read. Two brothers, one consumed by greed, the other by envy. In a time when the land is savaged by marauding armies, they risk their families and their lives to pursue their obsessions.
Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men. Ugetsu was restored by The Film Foundation and Kadokawa Corporation at Cineric Laboratories in New York.
Combining gritty realism with supernatural elements, Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu sets its sights on mankind's misguided delusions of grandeur and the price that is ultimately paid for folly.
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Jun 7, 2017 · Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda discusses how Kenji Mizoguchi seamlessly weaves together harsh realism and spellbinding fantasy in his masterpiece Ugetsu.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage’s warning against seeking to profit from warfare.
