# Cuentos de la Luna Pálida (1953)

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**Original title**: *雨月物語*
**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
**Directed by**: Kenji Mizoguchi
**Written by**: Yoshikata Yoda, Hisakazu Tsuji
**Starring**: Machiko Kyō, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Eitarō Ozawa, Sugisaku Aoyama

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

War-torn country lanes, autumn mist clinging to ceramic rims.
Soldiers barter silver for cheap pots while twins chase the ghost of glory.
Mizoguchi’s ghost-story refracts ambition through a hearth’s dying embers.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread, slow-burn, surreal

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