The Crucified Lovers

Name: The Crucified Lovers
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1954
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Cast: Kyōko Kagawa, Chieko Naniwa, Haruo Tanaka, Ichirō Sugai, Eitaro Ozawa

近松物語

by Kenji Mizoguchi1h421954Japan

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Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Production Compagny : Daiei Studios
- Scenario : Yoshikata Yoda
- Photo Director : Kazuo Miyagawa
- Sound Recorder : Iwao Ôtani
- Producer : Masaichi Nagata
- Original Music : Fumio Hayasaka, Tamezô Mochizuki
- Costume Design : Natsu Itô
- Editing : Kanji Suganuma
- Set Decoration : Yaichi Ebise
- Sound Mixer : Shôsaburô Suzuki
- Director : Kenji Mizoguchi
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1954
- French release date : 15 mai 1957
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Japanese

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Jean Douchet
about The Crucified Lovers
of Kenji Mizoguchi
Il fait partie de ces gens qui d'emblée ont compris qu'est-ce que c'était que l'art du cinéma
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Gabriela Trujillo
about The Crucified Lovers
of Kenji Mizoguchi
C'est un moment de grâce dans la carrière de Mizoguchi
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Gabriela Trujillo
about The Crucified Lovers
of Kenji Mizoguchi
L'événement capital de la vie du jeune Mizoguchi, c'est le moment où sa sœur est vendue à une maison de geishas

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Blow Up - ARTE : Face à l'Histoire : Kenji Mizoguchi

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Chieko Naniwa

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Sansho the Bailiff

Girls of the Night

Haruo Tanaka

To Live

Ichirō Sugai

Early Summer

Sansho the Bailiff

The Life of Oharu

Eitaro Ozawa

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

A Wife Confesses

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Sansho the Bailiff

Street of Shame

The Life of Oharu

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Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

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Sansho the Bailiff

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