by Jonathan Crow
synopsis
Presented in a manner as eerie as it is heartbreaking, this film is a gorgeous supernatural fable about the folly of men with dreams larger than their abilities and their women who suffer as a result. Genjuro (Masuyaki Mori) is a potter who longs for wealth and luxury, while Tobei (Sakae Ozawa), a farmer, dreams of the glories of the samurai to the point of ignoring his wife. Though a war rages around them, they venture to town to sell their wares. Genjuro becomes bewitched by a beautiful though vengeful ghost (Machiko Kyo), while his wife is murdered by a soldier; Tobei becomes a noted warrior, while his wife descends into prostitution after being raped while searching for her husband.
characteristics
- High Artistic Quality
- High Historical Importance
- Political Unrest
- Dreams
- Peasant
- Aspiration
- Suffering
- Fantastic Reality
- Career
- Fable
- Women
- Crumbling Marriages
- Apparition
- Warrior
- Spirit
