Chikamatsu Monogatari

This truly is a story from Chikamatsu, within which the ballad of Mohei and Osan exerts a pitiless mechanical force, like a trebuchet, that forever alters the lives of those around them.

Condenses a wide array of injustices-as well as an extraordinary romantic power-into its brisk and wide-ranging action.

Here is the rare Japanese period film of its era that also explicitly recognizes the double standards of sexual morality between the sexes.

'A Story from Chikamatsu' will make you angry, but first it will move you to the core.