Directed by:
Kenji MizoguchiCinematography:
Kazuo MiyagawaComposer:
Fumio HayasakaCast:
長谷川一夫, Kyōko Kagawa, Haruo Tanaka, Chieko Naniwa, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Eitarô Ozawa, 進藤英太郎, 伊達三郎, 菅井一郎, Yôko MinamidaPlots(1)
One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 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 subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a “great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.” (Criterion)
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