Movie
Chikamatsu Monogatari
近松物語
78%
Audience score158 votes on TMDB
“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.
- Screenplay
- Yoshikata Yoda
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Music
- Tamezō Mochizuki
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 23/11/1954
- Original language
- Japanese
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