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Ugetsu

Ugetsu Monogatari

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War, ambition, and a ghostly shore draw two families away from the lives they have.

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Japanese
BeautifulBleak はじめの一本に最適 · 少し集中して Drama
Ugetsu: A moonlit boat and misty castle are echoed inside a ceramic bowl.

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Who are the two couples in Ugetsu?

For a first viewing, keep these two households separate. The husbands have different ambitions, so each pair gives you one thread to follow.

Genjuro and Miyagi
Genjuro, a potter, is Miyagi's husband. His growing ambition centres on selling his pottery and making money.
Tobei and Ohama
Tobei is Ohama's husband. He wants to become a samurai; follow that wish separately from Genjuro's commercial ambitions.

Lady Wakasa is the noblewoman drawn to Genjuro's pottery. She belongs to his strand of the story, separate from the two village couples.

Phillip Lopate's Criterion essay introduces these relationships; Criterion's cast list matches the names to the performers.

どんな作品か

Ugetsu joins a wartime tale of ambition to a ghost story whose beauty never separates from consequence. Two village men pursue wealth and martial status while their wives absorb the danger created by those dreams. Kenji Mizoguchi’s long, mobile takes connect work, travel, violence, seduction, and supernatural revelation without reducing the women to plot lessons. The lake crossing and Lady Wakasa’s world are among cinema’s most haunting passages, yet the film’s moral force returns repeatedly to labor and family. Its Venice recognition helped establish Mizoguchi internationally and influenced generations of filmmakers.

無理なく楽しむために

The supernatural enters gradually, so let uncertainty remain rather than trying to identify the exact boundary between reality and ghost story. Track the two men’s ambitions separately and notice how the camera stays attentive to the work and displacement experienced by their wives. A restored print is especially valuable for the mist, water, and long movements.

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簡単な補足(網羅的ではありません) Includes wartime violence, sexual exploitation, death, family abandonment, threats, and grief.
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The lake crossing feels suspended outside ordinary time, but the film never lets beauty cancel responsibility. Mizoguchi’s camera can glide toward fantasy and still remember the hands that shaped the pottery, tended the home, and paid for another person’s dream.

— Momo

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