Ugetsu  [videorecording] / 
Janus Films ; a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. 
 - Special ed. 
 - [United States] :  Criterion Collection,  2005. 
 - 2 videodiscs (97 min.) :  sd., b&w ;  4 3/4 in. +  1 booklet (69 p. : ill.) 
 - The Criterion collection ;  309 .
 - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;  309. .
<br/><br/> Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.  Aspect ratio 1.33:1.  Special features: Disc 1. New restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by critic, filmmaker and festival programmer Tony Rayns; Process and production, a 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director of Ugetsu; 10-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992; theatrical trailers; new and improved English subtitles -- Disc 2. Kenji Mizoguchi: the life of a film director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved English subtitles.  Accompanying booklet features an essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film: "The house in the thicket" and "A serpent's lust" by Akinara Ueda from his book "Ugetsu monogatari" and "How he got the Legion of Honor" by Guy de Maupassant. 
<br/><br/>Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa; art direction, Kisaku Ito; music, Fumio Hayasaka.  Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa; art direction, Kisaku Ito; music, Fumio Hayasaka. 
<br/><br/>Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Masayuki Mori, Sakae Ozawa. 
<br/><br/> Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai. 
<br/><br/> MPAA rating: Not rated. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital, mono. 
<br/><br/><br/>Japanese language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English. 
<br/><br/> Venice Film Festival, 1953: Silver lion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0780030303 9780780030305 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>037429209325 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>UGE020  Criterion Collection 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Potters--Japan--Drama.<br/>Ghosts--Drama.<br/>Man-woman relationships--Drama.<br/>Motion pictures--Japan.<br/>Cine Japonés (inglés)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--History--1333-1600--Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Feature films.<br/>Japanese language films.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CM DVD 01212 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/75