Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative titles: Ugetsu / Tales of Ugetsu / Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon after the Rain / 雨月物語
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô and Kinuyo Tanaka
IMDb score:
8,1 (28.088)
Releasedate: 26 March 1953
Ugetsu Monogatari plot
In sixteenth-century Japan, two serfs want to get rich. One, Genjurô, wants to become a potter selling his wares, while the other, Tôbei, prefers to become samurai. When the city is raided by robbers, they both decide to leave the city, but Genjurô soon sends his wife Miyagi back home. Then the rich Lady Wakasa shows interest in his pots and invites him.
Actors and actresses
Lady Wakasa
Ohama
Miyagi
Genjurô
Tôbei
Old Priest
Captain of Tamba Soldiers
Village Master
Shop Owner
Shintô Priest
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Powerful and tender. Black and white with beautiful scenes and image compositions and overall cinematographically certainly above average.
Tasty surreal twists in a story that pits simple family happiness against ambition for money and fame.
A lot of expression in the performances and appropriate, often mysterious music.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
I have varying degrees of satisfaction with Kenji Mizoguchi. He has made some very beautiful films, but also a few that hardly rise above mediocrity. This film about false ambitions and infidelity is one of them for my taste. Apart from the solid camera work and a handful of haunting scenes, the film suffers from overacting, exaggerated drama and poor settings, which at times seem straight out of the 1950s. Shame.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Difficult. My version was one with a dark yellow filter. The image quality could have been a lot better, but the image composition, camera work and the structure of the plot stood out anyway.
A kind of fairy tale with a certain moral. Central themes revolve around love, greed and betrayal and are elaborated on the basis of two farmers. One is a potter, the other wants to make it as a samurai, but unlike the first, is not at all skilled in what he aims for.
You have to love Japanese old cinema to fully absorb this, especially when the theme of the countryside and, say, the 'Middle Ages' with those samurai and warlords is mentioned. Not 100% convinced, but I certainly understand the fans.
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