Ugetsu

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Call Number: DVD FLC-JPN Ugetsu
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Based on "Tales of Moonlight and Rain" by Akinari Ueda.
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. Container insert includes the essay "From the Other Shore" by film critic Phillip Lopate.
880-02 Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito.
"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.
DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Contents: Ugetsu monogatari.

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6 words submitted by tarascon on July 30, 2023, 8:28am A classic.
Do not miss.
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