Ugetsu Monogatari

This film is not currently available on DVD. Film Description A Tale of a Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain. Set in sixteenth-century war-torn Japan, two peasant potters leave their wives to pursue their ambitions - one for wealth, the other for glory as a samurai warrior. Often described as one of the most beautiful films ever made.

Film Details Director Kenji Mizoguchi Starring   Country Japan Language JAPANESE   Year 1953

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Article - "Kenji Mizoguchi" by John Davies
Monday 5th January 2004

Kenji Mizoguchi was born in 1898, the middle child of a Tokyo family. The abrupt ending of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese war, dashing his father's attempts to sell raincoats to the army, precipitated a desperate financial crisis which forced Mizoguchi's older sister Suzu...  View article in full

Article - "Andrei Tarkovsky - Dreams / Morality / Freedom" by John Davies
Monday 14th May 2007

Andrei Tarkovsky died in 1986 at the age of just 54. His seven feature films, commencing with Ivan's Childhood in 1962, form one of the greatest and most individual bodies of work in cinema. Whether nominally making films in the areas of war, medieval histor...  View article in full

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