Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari) (Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon)

very unsettling, specifically with sound. lots of very eerie noises going on throughout the entire thing. never felt like i was being talked down to either. a refreshingly nuanced take on greed. ceramics!

Karsten

Weep. Ugetsu is Mizoguchi's horror film, a nightmare across this life and the next. A man, dirtied and shirtless, wanders across a burnt landscape. Ugetsu draws on folklore and classic Japanese literature to produce quintessential jidaigeki cinema. It is a departure from…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

For a film that remains one of the glories of fantastic cinema, Mizoguchi’s achievement in giving Ugetsu a strong sense of place is remarkable.

Filipe Furtado

65/100 This troubles me. For as long as I've maintained a film log ("Since 1992"), I've made a point of noting theatrical screenings vs. any form of home video. That's because I don't fully trust the latter. The advent of first DVD and then Blu-ray has helped, to be sure,…

Mike D'Angelo

"War certainly changes people." "Without you, my success means nothing." A national fable of a ghost story wherein Japan is haunted by its own principles. Ambition turned overzealous transforms into greed; what used to push the country forward as a collective…

ScreeningNotes

Ugetsu is more impressive for its directorial prowess than the actual script. It's a glorious testament to director Kenji Mizoguchi's mastery of cinema language and his ability to extract the maximum entertainment values out of a story, even when the narrative is far from…

nick

Fog of greed. Like watching a curve become a straight line through the cruelest of moral lessons: only the material exists, dreams are purely devoted to idealism. This film feels like a fever dream one cannot wake up from until it’s too late, depicting a world of delirious…

Diogo Serafim

"Success always comes at a price, and we pay in suffering."Honestly, before seeing it, I thought I would appreciate it but not be overly impressed, but instead, it completely captivated me. It was like listening to a wise, instructive folk tale told by an old person, even…

ilsu

Se você procurar hoje em dia, vai achar uma infinidade de filmes de horror japonês. No entanto, assim como houve o primeiro filme de terror da história, o Japão também teve seu ponto de partida. Antes mesmo do terror começar a andar, elementos sobrenaturais já vagavam pelo…

Barmilliv