1954 · drama · romance
A Story from Chikamatsu
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi1h 42m1954
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
Our read: A Story from Chikamatsu (1954) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- bleak
- signature
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