An extraordinary, characteristic crane shot in Mizoguchi’s exquisite, classic ghostfable Ugetsu Monogatari starts with the camera high up, looking over the bustling streets of a 16th-century Japanese ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare. The trials of the two men, one a potter (Masayuki Mori) who gets involved with a phantom ...

"Ugetsu," also known as "Ugetsu Monogatari," is a must-own for any serious collector -- one of the greatest films ever made, and the first major work by Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi to be ...

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 “Ugetsu,” a mystical tale of love, art and war set in 16th Century Japan, may be the most beautiful of all the world’s black-and-white films. Frame by frame, shot by shot, it ...

Details: 1953, Japan, Rest of the world, UK, Cert NC, 93 mins Direction: Kenji Mizoguchi Summary: In war-torn sixteenth century Japan, a potter and a farmer leave their respective wives, one to become ...

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Kenji Mizoguchi took a quite a few chances in making this 1953 film, a classy ghost story centering on families besieged by civil war and knocked around by forces they cannot control. Drawn from works ...

This is the tale of a potter haunted by a ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.