Ugetsu
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. From TMDB
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60 of 109 · most liked firstA great visit from @alexwinter.com! His new film ADULTHOOD, which he directed, is now available to watch on demand. Alex's Picks: NO BEARS UGETSU HARLAN COUNTY USA The three of them are available to watch on the Criterion Channel ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Japanese theatrical release poster commemorates Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 cinematic masterpiece, Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari)
neutral · AI labelView post →Stoked for the upcoming Japanese horror celebration at Film Forum. My personal faves in the series are Kuroneko (1968), Ugetsu (1953), A Page of Madness (1926), Blind Woman's Curse (1970), and Audition (1999). Particularly hoping to catch Demon Pond (1979), which I've never seen before.
positive · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #190 "Ugetsu" (Kenji Mizoguchi/1953" By all accounts an achingly beautiful film but I wouldn't know as I have not watched it yet. 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Woman 1947 Kinoshita w Mito & Ozawa (each amazing; & in many films but maybe known best for Ugetsu). This film is 70 min & absolutely exceptional
neutral · AI labelView post →UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953, rewatch). Wonderful to see this beguiling blend of supernatural ghost story & crushing morality tale on the big screen. A beautiful, brutal exploration of how man’s pursuit of greed & glory at the expense of family loyalty will inevitably lead to his undoing. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Floating Weeds (1959) was Ozu's only film for Daiei, the studio that produced Rashomon, Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, Gate of Hell, The Crucified Lovers, Fires on the Plain, An Actor's Revenge, the Zatoichi series, the original Gamera series, and other movies and TV series. #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Can we call UGETSU a horror movie? I mean... there's a ghost...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ugetsu was really enjoyable. Quite interesting seeing the similarities between it and the Bride of Hades film. I’m not too familiar with Ueda Akinari’s ghost stories (kaidan) of which this was based.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Ugetsu (1953)
neutral · AI labelView post →#RemyReviews Kenji Mizoguchi's 'Ugetsu' (1953) "...the human cost of war and the motivations of power and profit behind it ... a poetic piece of #supernatural #cinema with a poignant finale that will haunt you..." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🥣 medium.com/framerated/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kainoshō Tadaoto 甲斐庄楠音 (1894 - 1978). Japanese painter, actor and costume designer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for his work in the jidaigeki film “Ugetsu” (1953).
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 95/100 Watched: Ugetsu Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Watched On: HBOMax At this point, just give me every Japanese ghost story there is please #100horrormoviesin92days
positive · AI labelView post →I like how he mentions Ugetsu influenced his whole filmography. So in other words, Ugetsu influenced Freaked and Smosh: The Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fumio Hayasaka (August 19, 1914 – October 15, 1955), composer of classical music and film scores such as Druken Angel, Stray Dog, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, and Sansho the Bailiff. #BOTD #Filmsky #Musicsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm a sucker for a specific type of mysterious, moody, and unsettling setting and subject. Magnetic Rose has it, Fragile Dreams has it, Another Code has it. Ugetsu Kitan had it in spades. Finally bit when @macaw45.bsky.social brought up the Backrooms film, as silly as that is. That guy never misses.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lovely to see @madamebibi.bsky.social today for a catch-up, some book shopping and this film at the PCC. It looked stunning on the big screen! #FilmSky #Ugetsu
positive · AI labelView post →We stir the ghosts of Melwood Screening Room this Thursday with UGETSU on 16mm! Last weekend @fleamarketfilms.bsky.social was in Maine repping Pgh at the Northeast Historic Film Symposium, sharing reels and stories from PSI's collection. Kinonik's Andy Graham handed off the UGETSU reels in person.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Ugetsu on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/4BqtuV
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched UGETSU (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) with a friend and it was a beautiful, haunting and brilliant film!
positive · AI labelView post →"Success always comes at a price, and we pay in suffering." 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 26 March 1953, #KenjiMizoguchi's Japanese masterpiece UGETSU, starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō, and Kinuyo Tanaka, was released in 🇯🇵
neutral · AI labelView post →I Rewatched: Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) ("Rain-Moon Tales") A beautiful post-war Japanese film that doesn't feel like homework, in that it's having fun pulling big twists like a thriller. As in "They were dead the whole time!" The medieval Japan wartime setting is used as a metaphor. #Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Today is #letterboxd #lastfourwatched friday! I watched the GREAT Aquarius, from Kleber Mendença Filho, Breathless and Pierrot le Fou were my first Jean-Luc Godard films, I really enjoyed them. Yesterday I watched the beautifully told and shot Ugetsu, a movie that is definitely going to inspire me.
positive · AI labelView post →…well, good old Mizoguchi-- every frame a masterpiece, most gorgeous tracking shots you've ever seen, and the movie is absolutely devastating…poor Oharu… …star Kinuyo Tanaka is incredible as always… …I'll put it up with his best movies-- Ugetsu, Sansho, etc.-- and so one of the greatest films ever…
neutral · AI labelView post →Hanabi Film Fest! "Ugetsu" 6, "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" 9 cstpdx.com "Camp Miasma" www.cinema21.com "Holy Mountain" www.academytheaterpdx.com Songwriter open mic dopdx.com/events/2026/... Cribbage! www.mcmenamins.com/events/27450... Rides: Disco golf, Singing Resistance www.shift2bikes.org
neutral · AI labelView post →watched Ugetsu and after learning that the director was told to make the ending less pessimistic, i liked the movie a bit more now. could've been more depressing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pluralize a movie: Ugetsu Polygatari
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose one film from each of your 100 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 30/100 Film: Ugetsu (1953) Director: Kenji Mizoguchi #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday: 'Ugetsu. Tales Under a Rainy Moon' (as that's how the Mizoguchi film is titled here). 🧵 I'm curious about the variations of titles in each country. Sometimes they offer clues. Here are my quick reflections: the emotion that emerges from the final scene reminded me of the feeling
neutral · AI labelView post →20 movies that have greatly influenced you, one a day for 20 days, no explanations, no reviews, just posters. Day 5: Ugetsu Monogatari #film #filmmaking #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I made a dreamlike ghost-war-fairy tale movie in college for my senior thesis and one of my faculty judges couldn't believe I'd never seen UGETSU. I have since corrected that, and taken that response as one of the nicest things anyone has ever seen about my work.
unlabelledView post →There's a line at the end of Ugetsu 1953 where the potter's apprentice's wife admonishes him after he spends half the film galavanting around as a samurai commander and brings his wife to ruin: "You are so stupid that you only learn through misfortune!" This is the US right now.
unlabelledView post →Ugetsu / Kenji Mezoguchi, dir. (1953) Beautiful and unsettling, a film that refuses to leave my mind. “Success always comes at a price, and we pay in suffering.”
unlabelledView post →Watched Ugetsu today. Pretty spectacular film and conveniently available on the Criterion Channel. Wink wink.
unlabelledView post →holly molly that synopsis! i'd never heard of Onibaba, but did see Rashōmon - even twice- & read the 2 short stories that were adapted into it - and another one also set in feudal times but very different, albeit technically also a horror movie : Ugetsu. Even bought the criterion dvd!
unlabelledView post →Today’s #DoubleFeature: • Akira Kurosawa’s RASHŌMON (1950) • Kenji Mizoguchi’s UGETSU (1953) #FilmSky #film #cinema #movies
unlabelledView post →10 horror movies to get to know me Legend of the Mountain The Iron Rose Chess of the Wind Ugetsu We're All Going to the World's Fair The Turin Horse Satánico Pandemonium: La Sexorcista Castration Movie 2 The Lure Viy
unlabelledView post →It’s like @criterion.bsky.social knew - 4K of UGETSU incoming here in the UK hmv.com/store/film-t...
unlabelledView post →tonight I watched Hard Boiled (1992) and Ugetsu (1953) both very good. Hard Boiled was maybe the best action movie I've ever seen, it was fucking awesome
unlabelledView post →I woke up this morning at around 4 (don’t ask) and started watching a film from ‘53 called Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi.
unlabelledView post →This week's What a Picture is our final film on the Sight and Sound list from Japan - Kenji Mizoguchi's classic fable Ugetsu. Check it out!
unlabelledView post →Not sure if this qualifies, but a Japanese film based on two 18th century Japanese ghost stories was one of the most haunting films I've ever seen. Uegetsu. This wiki entry explains both the movie and the short stories it is base on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugetsu
unlabelledView post →UGETSU is one of my favorite films. Easily the most beautiful ghost movie of all time.
unlabelledView post →Ugetsu gives me that *exact* same vibe, I credit both for making me realize that Japanese golden age film is more than just binging Kurosawa movies (as much as I love doing that lol)
unlabelledView post →finally got around to watching UGETSU. it jumps so seamlessly between reality and fantasy, and effortlessly executes some really technical filmmaking, that it kind of snuck up on me and not all of it registered until the movie was over. there’s a good reason this film is so revered—everything from the camera work to the score to its progressive-for-the-time messages about society’s treatment of women. check it out if you can! #film #cinema #ugetsu #mizoguchi
unlabelledView post →If LA LLORONA is a horror movie (I think it is) and KWAIDAN counts (I think it does) then I think UGETSU counts.
unlabelledView post →American vampire book talk, #portland https://www.powells.com/events/aaron-mahnke-9798894141817 "Camp Miasma" is playing at < 100 theaters in the US. PDX has at least 3 of them 💪🏽 https://www.cinema21.com/ Hanabi Film Fest! "Ugetsu" 6 pm, "Diary of a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
unlabelledView post →Yeah… perks of it being her most popular work 😂 You’d be almost in movie territory! If you met Ugetsu, violinist and Akihiko’s love interest , then that’s Given Movie 1 material. Please pick it back up 🥹
unlabelledView post →Great movie. It's probably time I spun it up again. I presume you're also a fan of Onibaba and Ugetsu.
unlabelledView post →Once in college I watched a classic Japanese film (possibly Ugetsu Monogatari), late night, sitting on a hard bench in a room with no rake, which made the subtitles (and hence the plot) impossible to follow. That's the second most bored I've ever been at the cinema.
unlabelledView post →18) I'm probably gonna come off hipster af with this one, but Ugetsu Monogatari is probably my favorite all-time Japanese movie. Beautifully shot, haunting story, incredibly somber ending. It almost made me want to put Kurosawa in the Overrated segment but even I know that'd be TOO pretentious lol
unlabelledView post →26 March 1953: Period fantasy film ‘Ugetsu’, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, was released in Japan. Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%* Letterboxd score: 4.3 (86%) (*Popcornmeter: 93%) #FilmSky #TodayAtTheMovies
unlabelledView post →So many awesome films! A deep dive on Visconti, Girlfriends, Ugetsu and WOMAN IN THE DUNES. A year of fine film watching!!
unlabelledView post →Speaking of moon allusions, you might enjoy Kenji Mizoguchi's film "Ugetsu Monogatari" if you haven't seen it yet. Different era, different social class, same moon.
unlabelledView post →At the Charles Theater two bros came in Star Wars shirts for a screening of Return of the Jedi but whoops! One week off. That night’s actual movie was the somber Ugetsu. They were good sports and stayed for the whole thing. Left as devastated as the rest of us. Art conquers all etc…
unlabelledView post →I watched Ugetsu a few weeks back, incredible film
unlabelledView post →Showed my class and saw for the 13th time Mizoguchi's marvel of a ghost film, UGETSU, and wonder why Lady Wasaka does not show up at Halloween. Her costume is, well, to die for.
unlabelledView post →Friend hosted a 1953 movie fest over the weekend. I'd seen Stalag 17 in middle school, The Hitch-Hiker 2x in theaters, and scenes of Mogambo on TCM but the rest were new to me. Everyone loved Stalag, Ugetsu was No. 2 and we thought From Here was WAY overrated (though everyone in it was gorgeous).
unlabelledView post →Both are extremely moving as well as gorgeous to look at. Life of Oharu fits in there as well. Ugetsu, for me, is close to the movie medium at its most flawless and exquisite.
unlabelledView post →My plan is to watch every movie on the Top 250 Narrative Feature Films list on Letterboxd. I’ve watched 3 new movies since my last update: Ugetsu: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Casablanca: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ Portrait of a Lady on Fire: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #filmsky #film
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