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Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Horror,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Ghost filmsActors Masayuki Mori,
Machiko Kyō,
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Mitsuko Mito,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Ryosuke KagawaRating80%
Ugetsu is set in villages which line the shore of Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province in the late 16th century. It revolves around two peasant couples – Genjurō and Miyagi, Tōbei and Ohama – who are uprooted as Shibata Katsuie's army sweeps through their farming village, Nakanogō. Genjurō, a potter, takes his wares to nearby Ōmizo. He is accompanied by Tōbei, who dreams of becoming a samurai. A respected sage tells Miyagi to warn her husband about seeking profit in time of upheaval, and to prepare for a probable attack on the village. Genjurō arrives with his profits, but she asks him to stop. Genjurō nevertheless works long hours to finish his pottery. That night Nakanogō is attacked by soldiers, and the four main characters hide out in the woods., 2h4
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Kinuyo Tanaka,
Kyōko Kagawa,
Eitarō Shindō,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Ken Mitsuda,
Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦)Rating83%
Sansho the Bailiff is a jidai-geki, or historical film, set in the Heian period of feudal Japan. A virtuous governor is banished by a feudal lord to a far-off province. His wife and children are sent to live with her brother. Several years later, the wife, Tamaki (Kinuyo Tanaka), and children, Zushiō and Anju, journey to his exiled land, but are tricked on the journey by a treacherous priestess. The mother is sold into prostitution in Sado and the children are sold by slave traders to a manorial estate in which slaves are brutalized, working under horrific conditions and branded when they try to escape. The estate, protected under the Minister of the Right, is administered by the eponymous Sanshō (Eitarō Shindō), a bailiff (or steward). Sanshō's son Tarō (Akitake Kōno), the second-in-charge, is a much more humane master, and he convinces the two they must survive in the manor before they can escape to find their father., 2h28
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Martial arts films,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Kinuyo Tanaka,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Toshiro Mifune,
Takashi Shimura,
Chieko Higashiyama,
Jūkichi UnoRating80%
The story opens on Oharu as an old woman in a temple flashing back through the events of her life. It begins with her love affair with a page, Katsunosuke (Toshirō Mifune), the result of which (due to their class difference) is his execution and her family's banishment. Oharu attempts suicide but fails and is sold to be the mistress of Lord Matsudaira with the hope she will bear him a son. She does, but then is sent home with minimal compensation to the dismay of her father, who has worked up quite a debt in the meantime. He sends her to be a courtesan, but there, too, she fails and is again sent home. She goes to serve the family of a woman who must hide the fact that she is bald from her husband. The woman becomes jealous of Oharu and makes her chop off her hair, but Oharu retaliates, revealing the woman's secret. She again must leave—this time she marries a fan maker who is killed shortly after during a robbery. She attempts to become a nun, but Oharu is thrown out after being caught naked with a man seeking reimbursement for an unauthorized gift (it is made clear this is rape by Oharu's claims and distraught demeanor). She is thrown out of the temple, becomes a prostitute, but fails even at that. In the end, she is recalled to the Lord's house in order to keep secret her activities and to be exiled within the compounds to keep her secrets locked away. While being scolded for the life she chose, she attempts to find her son, and in the process, ends up running away as she chooses the life of a beggar over the life in exile., 1h36
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Kinuyo Tanaka,
Mitsuko Mito,
Kuniko Miyake,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Sadako SawamuraRating72%
1884. La militante féministe, Toshiko Kishida se rend à Okayama, où Eiko Hirayama a fondé une école destinée à promouvoir une conception neuve du rôle de la femme dans la société japonaise. Eiko découvre, par exemple, que Chiyo, la fille des domestiques de sa propre famille, a été vendue à un habitant de Tokyo. Hélas, l'école de Eiko est bientôt fermée par les autorités. Elle se voit contrainte de partir pour Tokyo afin de se rendre au siège du Parti libéral, pourtant menacé de dissolution. Là, elle devient chroniqueuse pour le journal du Parti et se lie avec Kentaro Omoi, le responsable du mouvement. Elle va enquêter, notamment, sur la révolte des fermiers de la soie à Chichibu. Ceux-ci luttent, en particulier, contre les terribles conditions de travail imposées aux ouvrières des filatures. Eiko assiste à l'esclavage de ces femmes qui, de plus, sont souvent battues, torturées voire violées. Parmi celles-ci, elle reconnaît Chiyo. Cette dernière vient précisément d'incendier un bâtiment. Omoi, Eiko et Chiyo sont tous trois accusés de complicité et arrêtés. Chiyo, enceinte, se donne à un gardien dans l'espoir d'obtenir un moyen d'évasion. Au lieu de cela, elle est violemment frappée et son bébé mourra. Plus tard, Eiko apprend qu'Omoi, qui désire l'épouser, a aussi pour maîtresse Chiyo. Omoi trouve cette situation normale. Eiko comprend, dès lors, qu'il y a beaucoup à faire pour modifier la mentalité masculine japonaise. Mais, persévérante, elle continue son combat, d'autant que le contexte politique, désormais plus favorable, lui permet de rouvrir son école à Okayama. Dans le train qui la ramène vers sa ville natale, Eiko est rejointe par Chiyo., 1h42
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Kazuo Hasegawa,
Kyōko Kagawa,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Eitarō Shindō,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Yōko MinamidaRating79%
Ishun (Shindo) is a wealthy but miserly scroll-maker in Kyoto, especially regarding his younger wife Osan (Kagawa), who was from an impoverished family, and married Ishun for money., 1h48
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Ichikawa Raizō VIII,
Michiyo Kogure,
Koreya Senda,
Eijirō Yanagi,
Akitake Kōno,
Tamao NakamuraRating72%
Japon, XII siècle, moines et nobles s'opposent. Le clan Taïra, dirigé par Tadamori, a du mal à être considéré à sa juste valeur par la cour. Le fils de Tadamori, Kiyomori, apprend qu'il est peut-être en réalité le fils de l'ancien empereur, qui était l'amant de sa mère, une courtisane., 3h43
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Théâtre,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Films based on playsActors Mieko Takamine,
Daisuke Katō,
Isamu Kosugi,
Masao Shimizu,
Utaemon Ichikawa,
Mitsuko MiuraRating71%
Après l'injuste condamnation à se faire hara-kiri infligée à un jeune samouraï, quarante-sept de ses compagnons le vengent en se faisant à leur tour hara-kiri sur sa tombe., 2h26
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Martial arts filmsActors Yōko Umemura,
Nobuko FushimiRating77%
The film is set in Japan in 1885. Kikunosuke Onoe, played in his movie debut by the stage actor Shotaro Hanayagi, is the adoptive son of a famous Kabuki actor, who is training to succeed his father in an illustrious career. While hypocritically praising Onoe's acting to his face, the rest of his father's troupe deride him behind his back. Otoku (Kakuko Mori), the young wet-nurse of Onoe's adoptive father's infant son, is the only one frank enough to disclose his artistic shortcomings and urge him to improve himself. When Otoku is dismissed by Onoe's family for her closeness to the young master, with its potential for scandal, Onoe is outraged and leaves Tokyo to hone his art away from his father, much to the latter's wrath., 1h36
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Isuzu Yamada,
Yōko Umemura,
Eitarō ShindōRating73%
The story centers around two sisters (Umekichi and Omocha), who are geisha, living in an okiya of their own in the licensed pleasure district of Gion, Kyoto. The two women have very different outlooks on relationships with men. Umekichi, the elder sister, is the ideal geisha; she grew up going to dance and music lessons, wears kimono, and has a strong sense of giri, or loyalty, to her patron. Umekichi’s younger sister, Omocha, was educated in public schools and wears western clothing, except when she is working as a geisha. Unlike Umekichi, Omocha doesn’t trust men and believes that they will only use geisha and then abandon them without a care. Thus, she uses men to her own advantage. In doing so she is willing to manipulate and lie to her customers., 1h41
Directed by Kenji MizoguchiOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Shizue Natsukawa,
Isamu Kosugi,
Takako Irie,
Kōji ShimaRating65%
Il existe deux versions de ce film dans son montage court. Une française, muette, restaurée en 1999 par la Cinémathèque française à partir d'une copie-travail nitrate provenant de ses collections et une japonaise presque identique mais plus courte, il manque par exemple quelques scènes du mariage d'Orie et de Yukichi, mais commentée par un benshi. Les intertitres des deux versions comportent des différences. Le synopsis ci-dessous se base sur la version japonaise.