Yuki fujin ezu - A very rare film by Kenji Mizoguchi, the first of three films that Mizoguchi made about women of the privileged classes.
The story of an unhappily married woman who is obsessed with physical love and uninterested in spiritual love. Yuki, the only daughter of a once-noble family, is married to a businessman whom she despises, though his sexual power attracts her hopelessly. The young assistant to whom she is
attracted is too weak and indecisive to take any action of his own. In despair, she drowns herself in a mist-shrouded lake and it falls to a female servant to deliver an epithet of cowardice on her mistres.
Even by Mizoguchi's high standards the visuals are sumptuous, particularly in the climactic scene where a despairing Madame Yuki makes her final journey...
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara
1950 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - B&W - FULL SCREEN - 88 MINUTES
