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1955 (USA)
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A film of unparalleled beauty by the great Japanese Master Kenji Mizoguchi
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In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him...
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Luminous
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kinuyo Tanaka | ... | Tamaki | |
| Yoshiaki Hanayagi | ... | Zushiô | |
| Kyôko Kagawa | ... | Anju | |
| Eitarô Shindô | ... | Sanshô dayû | |
| Akitake Kôno | ... | Taro | |
| Masao Shimizu | ... | Masauji Taira | |
| Ken Mitsuda | ... | Prime Minister Fujiwara | |
| Kazukimi Okuni | ... | Norimura | |
| Yôko Kosono | ... | Kohagi | |
| Noriko Tachibana | ... | Namiji | |
| Ichirô Sugai | ... | Minister of Justice | |
| Teruko Omi | ... | Nakagimi | |
| Masahiko Kato | ... | Young Zushio | |
| Keiko Enami | ... | Young Anju | |
| Bontarô Akemi | ... | Kichiji |
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'Kenji Mizoguchi' left the composer alone to do the music. He also did that before in his previous films Ugetsu Monogatari as much as Chikamatsu Monogatari.
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Luminous...painterly...haunting...devastating...in terms of both substance and style, a cinematic achievement of the very highest order. Like all great works of art, it is incomparable, although it would not be misleading to place it in the company of the very best of Renoir, Ford, and Kurosawa. It has the same kind of compassionate humanism, high-caliber storytelling, and effortless-seeming mastery of the medium...the same generosity.
I prefer this film even to the great (and much better-known) Ugetsu. And I know now why Welles once said that Mizoguchi "can't be praised enough, really." I hope one day this film will be as well known as it deserves to be.