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Rating: 8 stars

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Japan Criterion

All movies seen on 04/21/2009

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Ugetsu (1953)

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Overview

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage’s warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro’s pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei’s desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

Rated NR | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Machiko Kyō | Mitsuko Mito | Kinuyo Tanaka | Masayuki Mori | Eitarô Ozawa | Sugisaku Aoyama | Mitsusaburô Ramon | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Kichijirô Ueda | Shôzô Nanbu | Kikue Môri | Ryûzaburô Mitsuoka | Ichirô Amano | Eigoro Onoe | Saburo Date | Fumihiko Yokoyama | Ichisaburo Sawamura | Koji Murata | Yukio Horikita | Akira Shimizu | Shuntaro Tamamura | Shirô Osaki | Toshio Chiba | Hachiro Okuni | Shirô Miura | Hajime Koshikawa | Tetsu Mikami | Jun Fujikawa | Takaji Fukui | Eiji Ishikura | Tokurin Takeda | Koji Kanda | Masayoshi Kikuno | Michio Yuri | Sô Funagami | Shigeru Hasegawa | Teruko Omi | Keiko Koyanagi | Masako Tomura | Tokiko Mita | Tokuko Ueda | Sachiko Soma | Reiko Kongo | Ikkei Tamaki

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Viewing Notes

Really good film.

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