Director: Mizoguchi Kenji
Script: Matsutaro Kawaguchi & Yoshikata Yoda after Monzaemon Chikamatsu's puppet play The Almanac-Maker’s Tale
Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa
Editing: Kanji Sugawara
Art Setting: Hiroshi Mizutani
Music: Fumio Hayasaka et Tamezō Mochizuki
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo, Eitaro Ozawa, Yoko Minamida
Production: Daiei Films
Distribution:
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Year: 1954
Screening: 2019
DCP, B & W, 102 min,
O.V. Japanese with French Subtitles
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 1955
Part of Japonism 2018
Japan, 1684. Osan is married to Ishun, a 30 years-older wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When she is falsely accused of having an affair with her husband’s best worker, Osan flees the city with Mohei. They escape first to Osaka then to the mountains around Lake Biwa, traveling first as lady and servant and later as lovers. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.
The Crucified Lovers was adapted from Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 1715 puppet play The Almanac-Maker’s Tale, which can be considered the Japanese Romeo and Juliet of crossed lover stories.
