Ugetsu monogatari (Motion picture) Kenji Mizoguchi, the life of a film director (Motion picture)
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Based on "Tales of Moonlight and Rain" by Akinari Ueda and the short stories of Guy de Maupassant. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Audio commentary by critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns; Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director, a 1975 documentary by Kaneto Shindo; Two Worlds Intertwined, a 2005 appreciation of Ugetsu by Masahiro Shinoda; Process and Production, a 2005 interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu; Interview from 1992 with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa; Trailers. Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito.
Contents:
disc 1. Ugetsu -- disc 2. Kenji Mizoguchi: the life of a film director (1975 ; 150 min.) / by Kaneto Shindo.
Summary:
"By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men"--Container.
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