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The Lady Of Musashino Reviews

1951

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Lady Musashino falls in love with her cousin when she discovers her husband's infidelity. Read more

Starring	Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura, Yukiko Todoroki
Director	Kenji Mizoguchi
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Mizoguchi's response to the moral climate of post-WWII Japan finds him torn between modern liberalism and conservative... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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- - 14
  - 0
  Musashino
  
  The Lady of Musashino
  
  During the later stages of WW2 a couple are bombed out of their Tokyo home. They come to live with her parents in Musashino ... read more »
  
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  - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington
  - 31 Jul 2004 at 12:01
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  - 0
  More subtlety than you think
  
  This is a film which you need to see more than once … I am writing as a european. On its face, the story might be a fairly straightforward nineteenth ... read more »
  
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- - Nigel Wilson
  - Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire
  - 20 Jul 2011 at 11:47
- - 3
  - 0
  Japanese master
  
  This is only the second Mizoguchi film that I have seen and on that evidence he ranks with Ozu and Kurosawa as a great Japanese director... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 12 Feb 2007 at 13:58
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  A beautifully directed film
  
  The story includes adultery, lechery and avarice: the basic ingredients of your average soap opera, and Mizoguchi seems aware of this crassness at the heart ... read more »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 24 Jul 2006 at 12:02
- - 6
  - 2
  The greatest
  
  If you know Mizoguchi you don't need to read any further. If you are into Japanese films and don't know this guy, well rent this out - he's the one... read more »
  
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- - thevoice
  - London
  - 04 Jul 2005 at 10:45
- - 3
  - 0
  conflict of old and 'new' post-war japan
  
  A wife tries to continue living by the standards taught to her by her parents while the majority of the people around her fall in with the postwar influence ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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- - Saty
  - Reading
  - 13 Oct 2004 at 11:09
- - 14
  - 0
  Musashino
  
  The Lady of Musashino
  
  During the later stages of WW2 a couple are bombed out of their Tokyo home. They come to live with her parents in Musashino ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 13081
- - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington
  - 31 Jul 2004 at 12:01
View all members' reviews (6)

- - 14
  - 0
  Musashino
  
  The Lady of Musashino
  
  During the later stages of WW2 a couple are bombed out of their Tokyo home. They come to live with her parents in Musashino ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 13081
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington
  - 31 Jul 2004 at 12:01
- - 6
  - 2
  The greatest
  
  If you know Mizoguchi you don't need to read any further. If you are into Japanese films and don't know this guy, well rent this out - he's the one... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 339792
- - thevoice
  - London
  - 04 Jul 2005 at 10:45
- - 3
  - 0
  conflict of old and 'new' post-war japan
  
  A wife tries to continue living by the standards taught to her by her parents while the majority of the people around her fall in with the postwar influence ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 21592
- - Saty
  - Reading
  - 13 Oct 2004 at 11:09
- - 3
  - 0
  Japanese master
  
  This is only the second Mizoguchi film that I have seen and on that evidence he ranks with Ozu and Kurosawa as a great Japanese director... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 411265
- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 12 Feb 2007 at 13:58
- - 0
  - 0
  A beautifully directed film
  
  The story includes adultery, lechery and avarice: the basic ingredients of your average soap opera, and Mizoguchi seems aware of this crassness at the heart ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 267314
- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 24 Jul 2006 at 12:02
- - 0
  - 0
  More subtlety than you think
  
  This is a film which you need to see more than once … I am writing as a european. On its face, the story might be a fairly straightforward nineteenth ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 1019546
- - Nigel Wilson
  - Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire
  - 20 Jul 2011 at 11:47

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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16

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