Ugetsu

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Awards

Academy Awards 1956 - Nominated - Best Costume Design, B&W

Mainichi Film Concours 1954 - Won - Best Art Direction

Mainichi Film Concours 1954 - Won - Best Sound Recording

Venice Film Festival 1953 - Nominated - Golden Lion

Academy Awards 1956 - Nominated - Best Costume Design, B&W

Mainichi Film Concours 1954 - Won - Best Art Direction

Mainichi Film Concours 1954 - Won - Best Sound Recording

Venice Film Festival 1953 - Nominated - Golden Lion

Venice Film Festival 1953 - Won - Silver Lion

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Ugetsu

Director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
94 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

"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 Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting tale of love and loss - with its exquisite blend of the otherworldly and the real - is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

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Details

Runtime:
94 min.

Country:
JAPAN

Language:
Japanese

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
  • Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved subtitles
  • Two Worlds Intertwined, a new, 14-minute appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda
  • Process and Production, a new, 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu
  • Ten-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992
  • Theatrical trailers
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • A 72-page book featuring film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film

 

 

 

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