Machiko Kyō
Lady Wakasa
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Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, lit."Rain-moon tales") is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō.It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre with a ghost story.
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.
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- Drama, Fantasy, War
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- 1954-09-07
Ugetsu (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
May 9, 2004 · Ugetsu. 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. Kenji Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" (1953) tells their stories in one of the greatest of all films -- one which, along with Kurosawa's " Rashomon ," helped introduce ...
Ugetsu's cast is uniformly excellent. Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyo, who were paired three years earlier in Kurosawa's international sensation Rashomon (1950), are reunited here in very different roles as Genjuro and Lady Wakasa. Kyo's role is showier, but Mori is effective in keeping Genjuro sympathetic and believable.
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