Chris 👾 on Nostr: 🎥 Tonight's movie was Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugetsu” (1953), following a ...

🎥 Tonight's movie was Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Ugetsu” (1953), following a recommendation from Hideo Kojima's Closet Picks. It's both a fable and a ghost story and a masterclass in cinematography in beautiful black and white and slow camera movements. The acting is superb and theatrical. The sound design (like cannons and gunfire at the beginning for a sense of urgency, threat and immediate danger) and the music really helps creating that eerie atmosphere in certain other scenes. Well worth a watch.

Ugetsu, also known as Ugetsu Monogatari is available on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPfl1dcTkI or Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/Ugetsu or on Bluray at Criterion.

Interesting essay by Phillip Lopate for Criterion
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/401-ugetsu-from-the-other-shore

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