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A Story From Chikamatsu (Criterion Collection)

A Story From Chikamatsu (Criterion Collection)

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Availability:In StockDirectors:Kenji MizoguchiActors:Kyoko Kagawa, Kazuo HasegawaArtist:Criterion CollectionGenre:DramaRelease date:11/13/2018Original year:1954
Publisher:Alliance EntertainmentLabel:CCINUPC:715515223010Weight:0.27Discs:1Product ID:SC145BFDWY
One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.
Publisher:Alliance EntertainmentLabel:CCINUPC:715515223010Weight:0.27Discs:1Product ID:SC145BFDWY
Publisher: Alliance Entertainment
Label: CCIN

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