Utamaro and His Five Women

All About Eve with woodblock prints. An acclaimed 18th-century artist is celebrated and harassed for depicting the beauties of the pleasure district. Mizoguchi's biopic is a gorgeous rebuke to wartime repression.

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Kenji Mizoguchi directed Utamaro and His Five Women in 1946. See Kenji Mizoguchi's full filmography, where to start with Kenji Mizoguchi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Utamaro and His Five Women was released in 1946 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 94 minutes.