If you loved The Straits of Love and Hate, try Utamaro e le sue cinque mogli
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 both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Straits of Love and Hate, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Utamaro e le sue cinque mogli is
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.

