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Plate Nº III

Ugetsu

雨月物語

Ugetsu Monogatari

Fig. IUgetsu · Daiei · 1953
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Mizoguchi pulls the camera through ruined gardens like a hand brushing silk. The boundary between the living and the dead is rendered as a question of light. Genjurō's pottery, fired in the kiln of his ambition, returns to him as a wife already buried.