Ugetsu
Ugetsu, Criterion Collection Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece (1954)
Ugetsu, Special Edition 2 DVDs
Aka:
Country: Japan 1953
Release: USA
Genre: Jidaigeki/Chambara
Disc Type: DVD 9
Running Time: 97 Minuten
Aspect Ratio: NTSC, 1.33:1, B&W
Audio: Japanisch DD Mono
Subtitles: Englisch
Starring:
Directed: Kenji Mizoguchi
Extras:
Disc #1:
- Main Featurette
- Audio Commentary (optional)
-Two Worlds Intertwined – a new, 14-minute appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda
- Process and Production – a new, 20-minute video interview with Tokuza Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu
- Ten-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992
- Theatrical trailers
Disc #2:
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975); a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved subtitles
Plus:
- A 72-page book featuring film critic Philip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film
Publisher: Criterion
Regioncode: 1
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Synopsis
The great Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi draws on sources from both East and West for this, his crowning achievement. Set in sixteenth-century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is equally rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. Focusing on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai, the film offers a commentary on the delusions of lust and power, the folly of war, and the stoic suffering of women. Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa helps Mizoguchi seamlessly interweave the supernatural with reality, resulting in one of the most beautiful films of all time.
"Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers," said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And 'Ugetsu', a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director's supreme achievement. Derived from stories by Akinari Uedu and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting tale of love and loss - with its exquisite blending of the otherworldly and the real - is one of the most beautiful films ever made.