50-Ugetsu Monogatari - Director:Kenji Mizoguchi - Cast: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa and Ikio Sawamura.

"a degree of purity that our western cinema has known only rarely."
-Jaques Rivette-


"Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers”
-Jean-Luc Godard-


"The long shot is a remarkable instrument—Mizoguchi developed it to perfection. I suppose I must have hit on the idea long before I saw his films; but his technique struck me all of a heap. It was from him I pinched a long shot which I regard as among the most successful I've ever made; and that's in Persona, when Bibi lets the piece of broken glass lie where it is. But at the same time the long shot demands tremendous density and a high degree of awareness. It must never be used at random."
-Ingmar Bergman-