Plot Summary
“Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers,” said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director’s supreme achievement. Derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting tale of love and loss—with its exquisite blending of the otherworldly and the real—is one of the most beautiful films ever made.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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100%- Reviews Counted: 21
- Fresh: 21
- Rotten: 0
- Average Rating: 9.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Kenji Mizoguchi, who directed, has a fantastic flexibility in using his actors and his camera, as witness his range in this film.
Fresh: Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare.
Fresh: A marvelously wise and moving classic, but also one full of sights that might make you cry, like Genjuro, 'I never imagined such pleasures existed!'
Fresh: One of the greatest of all films.
Customer Reviews
A strange and unique classic
This will be like no film you have ever seen, and certainly one you will never forget. There are actually two ghost stories embedded in the plot. Neither one anchors the story line, which pertains more the foibles of men and women as they blunder through life.
Classic Ghost Story
A tale of greed and desire told through a haunting ghost story set in Japan in the late 16th century.
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