Title: Chikamatsu monogatari /
Authors: Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956,; Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991; Kawaguchi, Matsutarō, 1899-1985; Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985,; Hasegawa, Kazuo, 1908-1984; Kagawa, Kyōko,; Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009; Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977; Ozawa, Sakae; Sugai, Ichiro; Tanaka, Haruo, 1912-1992; Ishiguro, Tatsuya, 1911-1965; Naniwa, Chieko; Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999; Suganuma, Kanji,; Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955,; Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725.; Andrew, Dudley, 1945-; Guest, Haden; Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971),; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Adultery Japan Drama.; Social classes Japan Drama.; Married people Japan Drama.; Merchants Japan Drama.; Women Japan Drama.; Adultery; Married people; Social classes; Japan Commerce Drama.; Japan
Abstract: "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.