The Crucified Lovers

★7.8

The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

Kenji Mizoguchi

Director

Matsutarō Kawaguchi,Monzaemon Chikamatsu,Yoshikata Yoda

Writers

Masaichi Nagata,Masatsugu Hashimoto,Hiroshi Ozawa

Producers

Budget

Revenue

23-11-1954

Release Date

Country

7.8

Rating

134

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Age Rating

102 min

Runtime

Released

Status

Japanese

Language

★ 7.8

Budget

Revenue

23-11-1954

Release Date

Country

7.8

Rating

134

Votes

Age Rating

102 min

Runtime

Released

Status

Japanese

Language

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Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène. "His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they confront human suffering." Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenji Mizoguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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