Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
- Original title
- 歌麿をめぐる五人の女
- Directed by
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 34 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a fictionalized biography of the woodblock print artist Utamaro. It follows his life in Edo Japan showing his relationships with five different women.
introspectivemelancholicbiographicallyricalcontemplativevisually texturedbittersweet
What happens
Utamaro and His Five Women a.k.a. Five Women Around Utamaro (Japanese: 歌麿をめぐる五人の女, Hepburn: Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna) is a 1946 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the novel of the same title by Kanji Kunieda, itself a fictionalized account of the life of famous printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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