In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
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Nippon Connection Film Festival 
USA New York Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version) 
Japan Tokyo International Film Festival 
PortugalM/12 USA 
Spain 
Greece JapanG USANR 16 
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very unsettling, specifically with sound. lots of very eerie noises going on throughout the entire thing. never felt like i was being talked down to either. a refreshingly nuanced take on greed. ceramics!
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🎧don't go chasin waterfalls
a sex ghost waiting at the end will seduce you🎤
A glorious cinematic feast for the eyes! A haunting tale with supernatural overtones that will beguile you with its powerfully seductive storyline about man's lust for money and power! And how easily they will sacrifice everything truly meaningful to get it!
A masterfully crafted fable filled with consequences, great loss, regrets and redemption!
Weep. Ugetsu is Mizoguchi's horror film, a nightmare across this life and the next. A man, dirtied and shirtless, wanders across a burnt landscape. Ugetsu draws on folklore and classic Japanese literature to produce quintessential jidaigeki cinema. It is a departure from Mizoguchi's earlier work, being more expansive and complete, beyond just the humiliation and pain of women. The Life of Oharu represented his previous style perfected. But this is beyond, travelling to the abstract.
Ugetsu is morally and socially complex, with a heart that blackens as it struggles to maintain righteousness. It is about the ethics of war, especially the way women suffer. It is filled with needless, pointless deaths, carried out by unnamed, ubiquitous soldiers. In many ways…
For a film that remains one of the glories of fantastic cinema, Mizoguchi’s achievement in giving Ugetsu a strong sense of place is remarkable.
feels like there's no one more misandrist filmmaker than mizoguchi, all the men in his films that i've seen are such pathetic bastards, consumed by their own cowardice and idiocy, meanwhile the woman bear all the consequences of those sins AND the responsibility of forgiving them. of course there's an immense melancholy at the end of ugetsu, but it's only obtained after an immense series of follies and mishaps... perhaps mizoguchi is being optimistic here, though. there can be learning through suffering, if we're open to hearing the lessons we need to hear.
It seems no one is safe from horny ghosts.
Part beautiful morality fable, part haunting ghost story, part war film, part love story, part social period drama, and a full on fucking extraordinary piece of cinema.
65/100
This troubles me.
For as long as I've maintained a film log ("Since 1992"), I've made a point of noting theatrical screenings vs. any form of home video. That's because I don't fully trust the latter. The advent of first DVD and then Blu-ray has helped, to be sure, and I'm not one of those zealots who insists that you haven't seen the movie unless/until you've seen a good 35mm print. But I do often wonder, when underwhelmed by a classic that had previously made me swoon on celluloid, whether seeing it in a diminished condition is largely responsible for the shift.
Here's something I wrote on a private forum after watching Tsai Ming-liang's The River twice in quick…
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Se você procurar hoje em dia, vai achar uma infinidade de filmes de horror japonês. No entanto, assim como houve o primeiro filme de terror da história, o Japão também teve seu ponto de partida. Antes mesmo do terror começar a andar, elementos sobrenaturais já vagavam pelo cinema oriental. Em 1953, surgiu "Contos da Lua Vaga", considerado o filme que deu o grande empurrão ao gênero, com uma atmosfera capaz de causar calafrios e que, na época, deve ter sido extremamente tensa. O filme se a no Japão do século XVI, durante um período de guerras civis conhecido como Período Sengoku, marcado pela violência e pelo caos.
A trama segue dois casais que vivem em uma vila rural: Genjurô (um…
Ugetsu is more impressive for its directorial prowess than the actual script. It's a glorious testament to director Kenji Mizoguchi's mastery of cinema language and his ability to extract the maximum entertainment values out of a story, even when the narrative is far from impressive itself.
Based on traditional Japanese folklores, Ugetsu is a resounding cautionary tale on the danger of human greed, against the cruel backdrop of a society amid civil war. Chronicling two couples' surreal experiences of survival and fortune-hunting during social unrest, Ugetsu is simply masterful in its stylish, patient presentation of intertwined character studies, even though almost all "twists" are visible from miles away, but it doesn't take away anything from the viewing experience, thanks to…
