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Zangiku monogatari (1939)
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15 January 1979 (USA) morePlot:
In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Possibly Mizoguchi's finest pre-war film moreCast
(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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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.