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B__Lee
Aug 11, 2011B__Lee rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Mizoguchi is one of the greatest directors in the history of film, and this is my favorite movie of his. ------------The film is set in medieval Japan, and dramatizes how the power of love and sacrifice help members of a nobleman's family savagely torn apart and sold into slavery rise above the degradations of a brutal world. The film is in beautiful. magical black and white, and Criterion did an absolutely first-rate job with this DVD - prints of the film I have seen in theaters did not look this good. It is a sad movie in many ways, yet beautiful and, in its own way, uplifting.