I just had the chance to see this incredible movie, and I haven't had many experiences like this when I was watching a movie. The story is amazing, telling of the hardships of women at the time and the acting blew me away. I could rant on this movie all day, and I have basically seen all of Kurosawa's films and the Life of Oharu by the same director and this has to be the best film I have ever seen.
shareNot the best film ever made, but it's certainly a very good one.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
All such opinions are of course subjective. But it's certainly good enough that this one is eminently reasonable.
It went right into my all-time favorites list at #23, edging Seven Samurai as my favorite Japanese film. I suspect it may move up on repeated viewings.
Here's a claim that's harder to argue with: it's the best ghost story in the history of cinema.
Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.share
The final 30 minutes are sublime, some of the best stuff ever. Wasn´t quite ´that´ impressed with the preceding hour though.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Comparisons are odious. What may have been a masterpiece can at a later stage in life seem pettifoggery. Like a comfrere once said about Les Enfants du Paradis. However, I watched Ugetsu of a TV in the basement of the Harvard Co-op House on 3 Sacramento St. in September of '62 with other Co-Op denizens, well before cable and PBS channels. It was memorable (since I had lived in Japan for 4 years after my dad had served in the Korean war and got stationed in Japan where he met and married Yaeko Nagata, a friend of our maid Koko-san and then our step-mother when we moved to Honshu from Hokkaido) and I appreciated a Japan not yet spoiled by creeping modernization.