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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...