Ugetsu Monogatari Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 94 mins
- Year produced:
- 1953
- Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast:
- Machiko Kyo
- Masayuki Mori
- Kinuyo Tanaka
The setting is 16th-century Japan, and civil war is raging. Genjuro, a potter, decides to take the chance to go to the city and make it rich - abandoning his wife and children in the village. During his adventures, he meets a beautiful woman, but she isn’t exactly what she seems to be. Meanwhile, his best friend has blown all his savings in his dream of becoming a samurai. This is a sad and beautiful story with supernatural elements.
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- This film has not been rated yet
Fascinating facts
Ugetsu Monogatari’s director Kenji Mizoguchi made over 80 films in his career - but many have been lost forever.