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One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker’s wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a “great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.”
A Story from Chikamatsu was restored by Kadokawa Corporation and The Film Foundation at Cineric, Inc., in New York, with sound by Audio Mechanics and the cooperation of The Japan Foundation. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Martin Scorsese for their consultation.
Original Release
11/23/1954
US Release
06/15/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Kazuo Hasegawa | Mohei |
Kyoko Kagawa | Osan |
Eitarô Shindô | Ishun |
Eitarô Ozawa | Sukeemon (as Saka Ozawa) / Sukeemon |
Yoko Minamida | Otama |
Haruo Tanaka | Gifuya Dôki |
Chieko Naniwa | Okô |
Ichirô Sugai | Gembei |
Tatsuya Ishiguro | Isan |
Hiroshi Mizuno | Kuroki |
Directors
Writers
Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Yoshikata Yoda
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kazuo Hasegawa | Mohei |
Kyoko Kagawa | Osan |
Eitarô Shindô | Ishun |
Eitarô Ozawa | Sukeemon (as Saka Ozawa) / Sukeemon |
Yoko Minamida | Otama |
Haruo Tanaka | Gifuya Dôki |
Chieko Naniwa | Okô |
Ichirô Sugai | Gembei |
Tatsuya Ishiguro | Isan |
Hiroshi Mizuno | Kuroki |
Hisao Toake | Morinokoji |
Kazue Tamaki | Jushiro Umegaki |
Kimiko Tachibana | Umetatsu Akamatsu |
Keiko Koyanagi | Okaya |
Sayako Nakagami | Osono |
Kanae Kobayashi | Otatsu |
Shirô Miura | Worker |
Nobuko Tanei | Young Girl |
Soji Shibata | Worker |
Satoshi Mikami | Worker |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Masaichi Nagata | Producer |