Story from Chikamatsu/bd United States edition

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Story from Chikamatsu/bd United States edition

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.

近松物語 / Chikamatsu monogatari

Media	Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc)
Number of discs	1
Released	November 13, 2018
EAN/UPC	0715515222914
Label	Criterion CCIN2961BR
Genre	Drama
Dimensions	137 × 171 × 9 mm · 81 g
Playtime	01:42:00
Region code	Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia)
Language	Original language
Subtitles	English
Director	Kenji Mizoguchi
Skuespiller	Kazuo Hasegawa
Skuespiller	Kyôko Kagawa
Skuespiller	Eitarô Shindô
Skuespiller	Eitarô Ozawa
Skuespiller	Yôko Minamida
Skuespiller	Haruo Tanaka