Utamaro and His Five Women

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Utamaro and His Five Women ★★½ Five Women Around Utamaro; Utamaro O Meguru Gonin No Onna 1946

Utamaro is a legendary 19th-century Edo artist who gained inspiration from Tokyo's “floating world,” of courtesans, brothels, drinking parties, and violent passions. His gorgeous portraits worship women but he dislikes the complications that fleshandblood females bring. Heavily stylized look at the artistic impulse. In Japanese with English subtitles. 89m/B VHS . JP Minnosuke Bando, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kotaro Bando, Hisato Osawa, Tamezo Mochizuki, Hiroko Kawasaki; D: Kenji Mizoguchi; W: Yoshikata Yoda; C: Shigeto Miki; M: Hisato Osawa, Tamezo Mochizuki.

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