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Ugetsu

(UGETSU MONOGATARI)

by Mizoguchi Kenji

Japan

 

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Director : Mizoguchi Kenji

Script: Kawaguchi Matsutaro, Yoda Yoshikata

Cinematographer: Miyagawa Kazuo

Art Setting: Ito Kisaku

Editing: Miyata Mitsuji

Music: Hayasaka Fumio

Cast: Mori Masayuki, Ozawa Sakae, Tanaka Kinuyo, Kyo Machiko, Mito Mitsuko 

Production: Daiei Films, N. Masaichi

Distribution: 
Capricci
3 rue de Clermont
44 000 Nantes
France
Phone: 0033 2 40 89 20 59

Year: 1953

Screening: 2019, 2000

DCP, B & W, 97 min, 
O.V. Japanese with French Subtitles

Golden Lion Venise Film Festival 1956

Part of Japonism 2018

In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century, a village is looted by Japanese soldiers. Farmer Tobey and potter Genjuro take advantage of the turmoil caused by war to change lives. They abandon wives and family in order to realize their dreams: Tobey wants to become a samurai ad Genjuro a famous craftsman. Both discover the high price to pay to pursue respective dreams of wealth and martial glory.

With the help of his producer Masaichi Tagata, Mizoguchi eventually achieves an old dream of combining two novels into one story. Ugetsu is one of his best movies and will get recognition both locally and internationally.

 

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