| Release | Nov 8, 2005 |
| Video | Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| Audio |
Japanese: Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Subtitles | Japanese |
| Studio | Criterion/Voyager |
| Year | 1953 |
- Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a two-and-a-half-hour documentary by Kaneto Shindo
- Two Worlds Intertwined, an appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide, Samurai Spy)
- Process and Production, a new video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu, about the making of the film
- Video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa
- Theatrical trailers
- Booklet featuring the original short stories on which the film is based: Akinari Ueda’s The House in the Thicket and Lust of the Serpent and Guy de Maupassant’s How He Got the Legion of Honor and a new essay by critic Phillip Lopate.
The great Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi draws on sources from both East and West for this, his crowning achievement. Focusing on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai, Ugetsu offers a commentary on the delusions of lust and power and the folly of war. Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa helps Mizoguchi seamlessly interweave the supernatural with reality, creating one of the most beautiful films of all time.
Criterion/Voyager
presents
"Ugetsu"
directed byKenji Mizoguchi
Production Year: 1953
directed byKenji Mizoguchi
Production Year: 1953
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