Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Part sensual ghost story and part cautionary tale about profiteering from war, Ugetsu is a stunning film. Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi in 1953, the film concerns two families in a small village during ...

FILM The 1953 Japanese film Ugetsu is based on stories written by the 18th century author Akinari Ueda. The film, regarded as director Kenji Mizoguchi’s greatest work, is a ghost story of love and ...

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 “Ugetsu,” a mystical tale of love, art and war set in 16th Century Japan, may be the most beautiful of all the world’s black-and-white films. Frame by frame, shot by shot, it ...

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare. The trials of the two men, one a potter (Masayuki Mori) who gets involved with a phantom ...

Details: 1953, Japan, Rest of the world, UK, Cert NC, 93 mins Direction: Kenji Mizoguchi Summary: In war-torn sixteenth century Japan, a potter and a farmer leave their respective wives, one to become ...