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 takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. 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.

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Director	Kenji Mizoguchi
Actor	Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito
Label	CRITERION

Genre	Fantasy Romanticism
Content	2 Blu-rays
Publication date	06.06.2017
Region code	A
Edition	b/w, Criterion Collection, Restored
Version	US Version
Original title	Ugetsu monogatari (Japanese)
Year of production	1953
Audio	Japanese
Subtitles	English

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