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(0)Akinari Ueda
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu. The title Ugetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief...
3) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Set in sixteenth-century Japan, an ambitious potter is haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer dreams of becoming a samurai.
4) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special ed.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.
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