Director : Mizoguchi Kenji
Script: Kawaguchi Matsutaro, Yoda Yoshikata
Cinematographer: Miyagawa Kazuo
Art Setting: Ito Kisaku
Editing: Miyata Mitsuji
Music: Hayasaka Fumio
Cast: Mori Masayuki, Ozawa Sakae, Tanaka Kinuyo, Kyo Machiko, Mito Mitsuko
Production: Daiei Films, N. Masaichi
Distribution:
Capricci
3 rue de Clermont
44 000 Nantes
France
Phone: 0033 2 40 89 20 59
Year: 1953
Screening: 2019, 2000
DCP, B & W, 97 min,
O.V. Japanese with French Subtitles
Golden Lion Venise Film Festival 1956
Part of Japonism 2018
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century, a village is looted by Japanese soldiers. Farmer Tobey and potter Genjuro take advantage of the turmoil caused by war to change lives. They abandon wives and family in order to realize their dreams: Tobey wants to become a samurai ad Genjuro a famous craftsman. Both discover the high price to pay to pursue respective dreams of wealth and martial glory.
With the help of his producer Masaichi Tagata, Mizoguchi eventually achieves an old dream of combining two novels into one story. Ugetsu is one of his best movies and will get recognition both locally and internationally.
