Container of (work): Chikamatsu monogatari (Motion picture)
Notes:
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitaro Shindo, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Chieko Naniwa. Based on the jōruri (bunraku puppet drama) Daikyoji mukashi-goyomi by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi: the Auteur Behind the "Metteur en Scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; New English subtitle translation.
Summary:
"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a 'great masterpiece that could only be made by Mizoguchi'"--Container.
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