If you loved El intendente Sansho, try Historia del último crisantemo
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Historia del último crisantemo tiene aproximadamente 3.3× votos menos que El intendente Sansho — es una opción más underground, no una recomendación de masas. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to El intendente Sansho, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Historia del último crisantemo is
Mizoguchi does not exactly traffic in light comedy. A male Kabuki actor, pampered as the adopted son of his famous father, realizes his acclaim is unearned. Spurned, he runs off with a woman from his household to make his own name in Osaka. It's a melodrama that is indeed very long.
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