Movie: Ugetsu monogatari

Year: 1953

Also Known As: Contos da Lua Vaga

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Genres: Drama | Thriller

Cast: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ichisaburo Sawamura, Mitsuko Mito, Kikue Môri, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Eigoro Onoe, Saburô Date…

Rated: 8.2/10 from 7,614 votes on IMDb

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Plot: In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river…

Release Date: 7 September 1954 (USA)

Runtime: 94

Directors: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Yoshikata Yoda, Matsutarô Kawaguchi

Countries: Japan

Budget: N/A

Languages: Japanese

Location: Japan

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