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Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) is a Kenji Mizoguchi drama you can watch online on iFILM. In 17th-century Kyoto, the wife of a respected scrollmaker who supplies the imperial court is wrongly accused of sleeping with his finest craftsman.
Branded guilty of a crime that carries a death sentence, Osan and the worker Mohei run from the city — and the lie forced upon them slowly hardens into something real, with no room to exist in a rigidly ranked society. Mizoguchi adapts a play by the great bunraku dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon, framing the doomed pair in long, exacting takes where a held silence cuts deeper than any line of dialogue. Kazuo Hasegawa and Kyoko Kagawa lead. Slow, bitter and quietly shattering — one for viewers who love austere classic Japanese cinema about people crushed by the rules. Watch Chikamatsu Monogatari online on iFILM.
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