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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 (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.
Jun 7, 2017 · None of these was more momentous than 1953’s Ugetsu, a sixteenth-century ghost story rendered in Mizoguchi’s signature style of long takes and flowing camera work. Drawing on disparate literary sources—two short stories by eighteenth-century Japanese writer Akinari Ueda and one by French master Guy de Maupassant—the director fashioned ...
Jul 16, 2017 · 97 min. Release Date. 03/26/1953. A mixture of social realism and otherworldly fantasy, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu takes place during a time of civil war in sixteenth-century Japan. The director’s sweeping tale of earthly humanity and spectral apparitions considers the fates of women during wartime. Wives become victims to the ambitions of ...
Feb 8, 2020 · Analysis: Kenji Mizoguchi took his first trip to Europe when he brought Ugetsu to the 1953 Venice International Film Festival. For the opening ceremony, he wore a montsuki (formal kimono with one’s crest printed) made of white linen deliberately sans haori jacket.
Jan 31, 2016 · Miyagi (Kinuyo Tanaka) is Genjuro’s loving and dedicated wife. (Actress Kinuyo Tanaka was a favorite of Mizoguchi’s and appeared in many of his films, including, The Lady of Musashino (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954) [2]. In fact it is widely believed that Mizoguchi had a long-lasting unrequited romantic interest ...
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Out of the Vaults: "Ugetsu", 1953. Hailed by critics as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguchi started his career making silent films in the 1920s with remakes and adaptations of classic writers like Tolstoy and O’Neill. In the 1930’s he moved on to films that commented on the social upheavals that Japan was going through ...
