The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 660 1950s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
158 audience votes
Key crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Yoshikata YodaScreenplay
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
- Tamezō MochizukiOriginal Music Composer
- Matsutarō KawaguchiScreenplay
Cast
- Kazuo HasegawaMohei
- Kyōko KagawaOsan
- Eitarō ShindōIshun
- Eitarō OzawaSukeemon
- Yōko MinamidaOtama
- Haruo TanakaGifuya Dôki
- Chieko NaniwaOkô
- Ichirō SugaiGembei
- Tatsuya IshiguroIsan
- Hiroshi MizunoKuroki
- Hisao ToakeMorinokoji
- Ikkei TamakiJushiro Umegaki
Stills
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Themes
japanescapesuicide attemptloverloveextramarital affairbankruptcykyoto, japanlocked injidaigekisocial class17th century
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