Ugetsu, with its many adventures and accidents and stories, is a well-constructed work of art, growing out of a sense of drama.

| Apr 20, 2022

With rare humanity, Mizoguchi reveals the toll these misadventures take on the souls of both men and their wives, many moments an uncanny synthesis of the realistic and the otherworldly.

| Feb 28, 2017

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare.

| Sep 16, 2008

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!'

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 16, 2006

A ravishingly composed, evocatively beautiful film.

| Feb 9, 2006

Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi's most widely heralded film, is a mysterious, incantory, and gorgeous parable.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 7, 2005

One of the greatest of all films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 12, 2004

Kenji Mizoguchi, who directed, has a fantastic flexibility in using his actors and his camera, as witness his range in this film.

| May 20, 2003

This award-winning film is beautifully told; its visual and narrative constructs are rich in tones and subtleties.

| Mar 10, 2003

Densely plotted but as emotionally subtle as its name, Ugetsu is one of the great experiences of cinema.

| Jan 1, 2000