Bibliograph

A story from Chikamatsu, Chikamatsu monogatari, Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon Yoda Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji

Type

Label

A story from Chikamatsu, Chikamatsu monogatari, Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon Yoda Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji

Language

jpn

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Main title

A story from Chikamatsu

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

1054110840

Responsibility statement

Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon Yoda Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji

Runtime

102

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 949

Sub title

Chikamatsu monogatari

Summary

"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a 'great masterpiece that could only be made by Mizoguchi'"--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Chikamatsu monogatariCrucified lovers

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