Utamaro and His Five Women

Utamaro and His Five Women
by Kenji Mizoguchi

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Actor: Hiroko Kawasaki, K?tar? Band?, Kinuyo Tanaka, Minosuke Band?, Toshiko Iizuka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 95 minutes
Release Date: 1998-11-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Studio: New Yorker Video

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Movie Review: The love like the art is the half of the soul!
Summary: 5 Stars

Kenji Mizoguchi (1898- 1956) in Japan, and Rainer Werrner Fassbinder (1946-1982)in Germany, have probably been the most supreme exponents of the feminine universe along the story of cinema.

Mizoguchi took over this emblematic project since his own terrible and desperate livings in brothels of the 20's , but even so, he doesn't show us a painful and self-complaint portrait about himself, rather than that he stands and states the transcendence of the art in our lives and how that position is the driving-force of our existence even in the worst unthinkable conditions.

This original and monumental movie deals with two talented exponents of the painting in Edo. Utamaru is by far, more original, inventive and prominent of both. Soon both masters will become friends.

But there will be many rivers to cross when the love, jealous and possession sense of several involved women try desperately to get the love of Sinosuke; bringing with it the unexpected tragedy.

The second narrative premise deals with the artistic freedom to create, and Utamaru must to accept to be with both hands tied during fifty days.

A fundamental testimonial of one of the most notorious Japanese filmmakers ever born and one of the maxim image `s poets of the cinema.

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