If you loved Il mio amore brucia, try La storia dell'ultimo crisantemo
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Il mio amore brucia, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What La storia dell'ultimo 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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