--- title: 'Ugetsu (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Kenji Mizoguchi' released: '1953-03-26' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Fantasy' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ugetsu-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Ugetsu (1953) 1953 · 96 min · Drama, Fantasy · Japan Original title: 雨月物語 ## Synopsis Ugetsu is a 1953 Japanese period fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on the stories "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent" from Ueda Akinari's 1776 book Ugetsu Monogatari, combining elements of the jidaigeki genre with a ghost story. ## Credits - **Director:** [Kenji Mizoguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-mizoguchi) - **Screenplay:** [Matsutarō Kawaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/matsutaro-kawaguchi), [Yoshikata Yoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshikata-yoda) - **Original Music Composer:** [Fumio Hayasaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/fumio-hayasaka), [Ichirō Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-saito) - **Producer:** [Masaichi Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaichi-nagata) - **Director of Photography:** [Kazuo Miyagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-miyagawa) ## Cast - [Machiko Kyō](https://cinepixo.com/people/machiko-kyo) - [Saburō Date](https://cinepixo.com/people/saburo-date) - [Eitarō Ozawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/eitaro-ozawa) - [Kichijirō Ueda](https://cinepixo.com/people/kichijiro-ueda) - [Masayuki Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/masayuki-mori) - [Ikio Sawamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ikio-sawamura) - [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinuyo-tanaka) - [Ryōsuke Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryosuke-kagawa) - [Mitsuko Mito](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitsuko-mito) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ugetsu-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1076605); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.