Yoshikata Yoda
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave drivers.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
日本語
Description
Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, in an affair with a narcotics smuggler, who, along with their younger friend Kumiko, descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.
5) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Series
Criterion collection volume 832
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection, and she soon gives up everything for her beloved's...
7) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
"Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors by the time he made Ugetsu. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers...
8) The mad fox
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
Amidst a mythically-depicted medieval Japan, a court astrologer foretells a great disturbance that threatens to split the realm in two.
9) Sanshō dayū
Series
Criterion collection volume 386
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to defend for themselves and eventually are separated by vicious slave traders. Under the dazzling direction of Kenji Mizoguchi, Sansho the Bailiff is a classic Japanese story which is seen as a Japanese masterpiece, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
"[A]n 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."--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 664
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout...