Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi’s sublime tale of the perils of placing dreams above reality follows two brothers and their wives amid the 16th century civil wars in Japan, one eager to profit from the conflict, the other dreaming of becoming a samurai., Two greedy men pursue wealth and glory in this gorgeous supernatural fable set in war-torn 16th-century Japan, while their wives end up paying a terrible cost for their foolish dreams., Kenji Mizoguchi’s sublime tale of the perils of placing dreams above reality follows two brothers and their wives amid the 16th century civil wars in Japan, one eager to profit from the conflict, the other dreaming of becoming a samurai. With Masayuki Mori, Eitaro Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito and Kinuyo Tanaka. In Japanese with subtitles., Two greedy men pursue wealth and glory in this supernatural fable set in war-torn 16th-century Japan, while their wives end up paying a terrible cost for their foolish dreams.