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"Chikamatsu Monogatari"
1954
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
One of the masterworks
of Kenji Mizoguchi: in 17th century Japan, the illicit love between a merchant's wife and
her servant leads to tragedy. Based on a story by Chikamatsu and derived from a Bunraku
play, "it is perhaps Mizoguchi's most intense and concentrated study of social mores
in feudal Japan and among his most visually sensuous films" (Georges Sadoul).
Japanese with English subtitles.
110 minutes. |
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