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Director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writers:
Matsutarô Kawaguchi (writer)
Shôfû Muramatsu (novel)
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Release Date:
15 January 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Possibly Mizoguchi's finest pre-war film more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Shôtarô Hanayagi ... Kikunosuke Onoue
Kôkichi Takada ... Fukusuke Nakamura
Gonjurô Kawarazaki ... Kikugoro Onoue
Kakuko Mori ... Otoku
Tokusaburo Arashi ... Shikan Nakamura
Yôko Umemura ... Osata
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nobuko Fushimi ... Onaka
Kikuko Hanaoka ... Eiryu
Kisho Hanayagi ... Tamisaburo Onoue
Ryôtarô Kawanami ... Eiju Dayu
Yoneko Mogami ... Otsura, Genshun's daughter
Tamitaro Onoue ... Tamizo Onoue
Benkei Shiganoya ... Genshun Amma
Fujiko Shirakawa
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
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Runtime:
142 min | Argentina:145 min | USA:148 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Hong Kong:I

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Referenced in Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975) more

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Possibly Mizoguchi's finest pre-war film, 30 July 2002
Author: Kalaman from Ottawa

Along with "Sisters of the Gion"(1936) and "Osaka Elegy"(1936), "Zangiku monogatari" is a strong candidate for Kenji Mizoguchi's finest pre-war film. It is one of the greatest and most beautiful films I have ever seen - a profoundly sublime, heartbreaking love story between a Kabuki actor(Shotaro Hanayagi) and working class servant (Kakuko Mori) who makes sacrifices to herself to ensure his theatrical success. The film, filled with dazzling long takes and rich Sternbergian compositions, centers on Mizoguchi's characteristic theme: the shallowness of men and the generosity of women. Rarely has a Mizoguchi film seem at once so sublime and devastating in its impact. The final sequence alone is among the finest in all of cinema.

My favorite Mizoguchi remains "The Life of Oharu"(1952); "Zangiku monogatari" is not very far behind.

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