Ugetsu 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray

When he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already one of the elder statesmen of Japanese cinema, highly regarded by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy based on stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a cornerstone of his art, where his long takes and sweeping camera guide the viewer through a delirious tale of two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far away from their loyal wives. Ugetsu moves between the earthly and the otherworldly, revealing essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

Ugetsu was restored by The Film Foundation and Kadokawa Corporation at Cineric Laboratories in New York. Special thanks to Masahiro Miyajima and Martin Scorsese for their consultation on this restoration. The restoration was funded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in collaboration with The Film Foundation and Kadokawa Corporation. 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

4K digital restoration, with uncompressed mono audio track

A 4K UHD disc with the film and a Blu-ray disc with the film and bonus features

Audio commentary by critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director, a 1975 documentary by Kaneto Shindo

Two Worlds Intertwined, a 2005 appreciation of Ugetsu by Masahiro Shinoda

Process and Production, a 2005 interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu

1992 interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa

Trailers

PLUS: An essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that inspired the film

Cover by Michael Boland

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: English