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Ugetsu

Ugetsu

Ugetsu monogatari

Kenji Mizoguchi


  • Country: Japan
  • Year: 1953
  • Language: Japanese
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  • Runtime: 97 min.

An exquisitely rendered ghost story from Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu is also, like many of his films, a tribute to the endurance and inner strength of women and a condemnation of male vanity, selfishness and brutality.

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screening times

    • Saturday October 9
    • 2:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Friday October 29
    • 3:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

An exquisitely rendered ghost story from Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu is also, like many of his films, a tribute to the endurance and inner strength of women and a condemnation of male vanity, selfishness and brutality. In a sixteenth-century village, two poor craftsmen—one yearning to become a rich and famous samurai, one entranced by a beautiful, aristocratic woman—abandon their long-suffering wives to fulfill their respective ambitions, which turn out to be illusory in more ways than one. Visually striking—Mizoguchi's superb command of the moving camera and his glimmering images of haunting, fog-enshrouded landscapes have rarely been equaled—and startlingly subtle in its realization of the story's ghostly apparitions, Ugetsu is a wondrous and moving tale of the supernatural.

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