Ugetsu = Ugetsu monogatari
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Special ed.
Languages
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (69 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary by critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns ; Two worlds intertwined, a 14-minute appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda ; Process and production, a 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director of Ugetsu ; ten-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992 ; theatrical trailers ; Kenji Mizoguchi : the life of a film director (1975), a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved English subtitles.
Contents
- [Disc 1.] Ugetsu (97 min.)
- [Disc 2.] Kenji Mizoguchi, the life of a film director (150 min.).