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Title:

A story from Chikamatsu = Chikamatsu monogatari = / a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Edition:

DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Chikamatsu, Monzaemon,--1653-1725--Film adaptations.
Kawaguchi, Matsutarō,--1899-1985--Film adaptations.
Adultery--Japan--Drama.
Social classes--Japan--Drama.
Japan--Commerce--Drama.
Married people--Japan--Drama.
Merchants--Japan--Drama.
Women--Japan--Drama.
Feature films.
Romance films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956, film director.
Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985, film producer.
Yoda, Yoshitaka, 1909-1991, screenwriter.
Kagawa, Kyōko, actor.
Hasegawa, Kazuo, 1908-1984, actor.
Minamida, Yoko, 1933-2009, actor.
Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (expression) Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725. Daikyōji mukashigoyomi.
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, composer (expression).
Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), film production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1954. Title from title frames; production credits from English-subtitled opening frames. Based on the puppet play Daikyoji mukashi-goyomi / by Monzaemon Chikamatsu, adapted as a play by Matsutaro Kawaguchi. Special features: new interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi : the auteur behind the "Metteur-en-scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; essay by film scholar Haden Guest (on insert). Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitaro Shindo.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 949.

ISBN:

1681435195
9781681435190

UPC:

715515223010

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)