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Utamaro and His Five Women

Utamaro and His Five Women

1946 · 94 min · JA · 7.1 (38 votes)
Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · Starring Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kōtarō Bandō, Hiroko Kawasaki, Toshiko Iizuka, Kyōko Kusajima · Music Tamezō Mochizuki
Drama

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women vie for lovers, and, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

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A lush, painterly dive into the world of a renowned artist. It's a sensual, melancholic exploration of desire and societal constraints, where beauty and passion intertwine with the artist's craft.

sensualmelancholicintrospectivelushslow-burnperiod dramaarthousepainterly visualserotic undertonesartdesiresocietal constraintsfemale agency
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