UGETSU [BLU-RAY]

Details

• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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.;
• Cast: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura, Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Môri, Ryosuke Kagawa, Eigoro Onoe, Saburo Date, Sugisaku Aoyama, Reiko Kongo, Shozo Nanbu, Ichirô Amano, Kichijiro Ueda, Teruko Omi, Keiko Koyanagi, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Jun Fujikawa, Ryuuji Fukui, Masayoshi Kikuno, Sugisaka Koyama, Ryuzaburo Mitsuoka, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Hisakazu Tsuji, Akinari Ueda, Masaichi Nagata, Kazuo Miyagawa, Mitsuzô Miyata, Akira Suzuki, Iwao Ôtani, Masatsugu Hashimoto, Kisaku Itô
• Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Kadokawa Pictures, Inc., Daiei Motion Picture Company (Daiei Studios), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie