An extraordinary, characteristic crane shot in Mizoguchi’s exquisite, classic ghostfable Ugetsu Monogatari starts with the camera high up, looking over the bustling streets of a 16th-century Japanese ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Wisconsin Cinematheque's fall lineup of foreign films opened this weekend with "Ugetsu Monogatari," the first in a series titled "Distant Observer" that features the canonical work ...

Jasei no In: The Serpent's Lust is a short, linear RPG with a strong narrative. It is an adaption of a story by the same name in the famous Japanese book Ugetsu Monogatari ...

When you think of the Japanese Golden Age of cinema, three names comes to mind; Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa and the person who is most often left out of the list, Kenji Mizoguchi. A master of cinema ...

When most people think of the post-war Golden Age of Japanese cinema, the films of Akira Kurosawa immediately spring to mind. The success of Rashomon put Kurosawa in the international spotlight, and ...

Find out which new movies are debuting this weekend in theaters, including the exciting action film Twisters starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Jack Black cancels world tour after Trump ...