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Utamaro and His Five Women

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Utamaro is a great artist who lives to create portraits of beautiful women, using the brothels of Tokyo to provide his models.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker 03/08/2021
Kenji Mizoguchi's 1946 historical drama, about the life and work of the Edo-era painter, who was born in 1753, is also the director's daring and forthright credo of artistic ambitions. Go to Full Review Yasser Medina Cinefilia 10/08/2020
7/10
I don't believe that 'Utamaro and His Five Women' is one of Kenji Mizoguchi's great jidaigeki melodramas, but I admit that his tale of Japanese women's suffering and the passion of an artist makes a considerable impression on me. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television 12/03/2016
Uneven film about the famous painter has interest, but is far from Mizoguchi's best. Go to Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 02/03/2014
A Japanese feminist's self-aware ode to all the heroines who have carried the famed male gaze on their shoulders Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/21/2005
5/5
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal 08/22/2003
4/5
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Kenji Mizoguchi

Director

Kinuyo Tanaka

Okita

Yoshikata Yoda

Writer
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Synopsis Utamaro is a great artist who lives to create portraits of beautiful women, using the brothels of Tokyo to provide his models.
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Screenwriter
Yoshikata Yoda
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 46m