Utamaro and His Five Women

歌麿をめぐる五人の女
1946 94 min Drama

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.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · Written by Yoshikata Yoda

Starring Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kōtarō Bandō, Hiroko Kawasaki, Toshiko Iizuka, Kyōko Kusajima

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