Ugetsu, with its many adventures and accidents and stories, is a well-constructed work of art, growing out of a sense of drama.

With rare humanity, Mizoguchi reveals the toll these misadventures take on the souls of both men and their wives, many moments an uncanny synthesis of the realistic and the otherworldly.

Tale of two men in seething 16th-century Japan has a color and panorama which makes this absorbing film fare.

... always-connected digital communication that we live in, there’s a belief that one must be seen in order to be real and being seen must be shuffled through a myriad of filters before clicking publish, the message from 1953 remains a poignant one.