Chikamatsu Monogatari

Name: Chikamatsu Monogatari
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1954-11-23
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Eitarō Ozawa, Yōko Minamida

“The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.”

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