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Ugetsu [videorecording] / Janus Films ; a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. - [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006. - 2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet - The Criterion collection .

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953 Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films." From "Tales of Moonlight and Rain" by Akinari Ueda "Essential art house : 50 years of Janus films" shelved incirculating stacks

Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; art direction, Kisaku Ito; music, Fumio Hayasaka Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; art direction, Kisaku Ito; music, Fumio Hayasaka

Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Masayuki Mori, Sakae Ozawa

Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai


DVD; region 1; NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; Dolby Digital, mono


Japanese language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English

ISBN: 9786309673770

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Potters--Japan--Drama.
Ghosts--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Motion pictures--Japan.
Feature films.
Foreign films.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan--History--1333-1600--Drama.

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4372 / UGE 2005