A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
A Story from Chikamatsu
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A Story from Chikamatsu

Kenji Mizoguchi Japan, 1954

One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu 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 subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a “great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.”

Details

  • 102 min
  • B&W
  • 1.37:1

Formats

  • DCP
  • Blu-ray
  • DVD

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