Ugetsu Comments

  • Reed 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    "War drives us mad with...

  • Christina 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Japan's White Snake The estrangement between men and women speaks their own words The performance of the film itself is classical and elegant, but the expression of the female ghost is vague, and the ending is very poor. Into the peaceful family lair? The overall story is too thin and barely 4...

  • Delpha 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Acknowledging the influence of Japanese ghost novels and Japanese Noh music makes this film the most exquisite work that carries the Japanese national culture. It seems that Japanese movies have such a routine of adapting national literary works. This strange tone is reminiscent of Akutagawa's "Hell Change". It is said that the rolling movement of the film scheduling is very careful, and it is a traditional Japanese picture scroll form. But why didn't Mizoguchi follow Akira Kurosawa to use a...

  • Ernest 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Both husbands betrayed their wives to varying degrees, one longed for a career, the other wandered in a spring dream, and finally both were forced to return to their wives. One was forgiven by his wife, while the other was long gone. The wives have always been down-to-earth and endured everything silently. This is not only the director's praise for women, but also his affirmation of the life of the common...

  • Janice 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    The film expresses two stories and two personalities in parallel: the savagery, arrogance and blindness of men; the humility, infatuation and sobriety of women. The moral relationship between the two is again shrouded in mystery. In the film, the director uses a large number of perspectives to express the relationship between man and the world: man is both a part of nature and dominated by this world, making him seem so insignificant. Many of the photography and depth-of-field composition shots...

  • Al 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Mizoguchi Kenji mixed two stories of Ueda Akisari in "The Story of the Rainy Moon": "Sleeping in a Deserted House" and "The Prostitution of Snakes". The principle of causal reincarnation has been faded away, and the struggle and sense of existence of "people" have been strengthened. Floating life is a dream, but unfortunately the film is not as exciting as...

  • Lawrence 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    9 points, very well done, I like it very much. In many places, a rocker was used to shoot the overall scene, and the scheduling was very careful. The way of telling the story is also reassuring, using the camera to narrate, but the lines are not redundant, the characters are quite personal, the behavior is fully motivated, and they are gradually attracted and will be firmly grasped. It's human, and the ending is a bit long-winded, but it is said that the studio forced a big reunion. I was very...

  • Javon 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    9 points, very well done, I like it very much. In many places, a rocker was used to shoot the overall scene, and the scheduling was very careful. The way of telling the story is also reassuring, using the camera to narrate, but the lines are not redundant, the characters are quite personal, the behavior is fully motivated, and they are gradually attracted and will be firmly grasped. It's human, and the ending is a bit long-winded, but it is said that the studio forced a big reunion. I was very...

  • Jazlyn 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Four and a half stars. Mizoguchi's scheduling can only be described as big and clumsy. The long shots that are always moving and still make the atmosphere continue to "supercharge", and when the camera is fixed like a picture frame, the scene has a sense of detached stage , it moves like a lonely soul watching secretly - this amazing mysterious effect may be due to the strict control of the scene: almost all shots are panoramic, maintaining a close and safe with the characters. distance, not...

  • Kassandra 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    8.1 points, it's actually a horror movie. Mizoguchi Kenji is a famous Japanese director, and I have only seen one of his movies so far. The movie is equivalent to an extended version of the first short film of "Strange Talk", but "Strange Talk" focuses more on horror, while this one focuses more on the loss of life's direction. Personally, I think the story of the film does not reflect the theme of the film. Those two people gave up because of their character and ability, not because of their...

Extended Reading

Ugetsu quotes

  • Ohama: Success always comes at a price, and we pay in suffering.

Ugetsu

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Language: Japanese Release date: September 7, 1954