1954 · drama · geisha · mother-daughter
The Woman in the Rumor
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi1h 24m1954
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
Our read: The Woman in the Rumor (1954) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · geisha · mother-daughter entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / geisha, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
Watching The Woman in the Rumor tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How The Woman in the Rumor feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a classic Mizoguchi drama of family secrets and social stigma in a Kyoto brothel.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if slow 1950s Japanese melodrama and brothel settings bore you.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Woman in the Rumor, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →