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Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women vie for lovers, and, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
37 audience votes
Key crew
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Yoshikata YodaWriter
- Tamezō MochizukiOriginal Music Composer
- Hisato OsawaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bandō Mitsugorō VIIIUtamaro
- Kinuyo TanakaOkita
- Kōtarō BandōSeinosuke
- Hiroko KawasakiOran
- Toshiko IizukaTakasode
- Kyōko KusajimaOman
- Eiko OharaYukie
- Shôtarô NakamuraShozaburo
- Kiniko ShirataoOshin
- Minpei TomimotoTakemaro