Contos da Lua Vaga (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi

Avaliação (IMDB):           8.1/10
Título original: Ugetsu Monogatari 
Título nacional: Contos da Lua Vaga
País: Japan, 96 minutos
Idiomas falados: Japonês
Gênero(s) Drama, Fantasia, Mistério
Ano:1953

Diretor: Kenji Mizoguchi

Elenco: Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Machiko Kyô, Eitarô Ozawa, Ichisaburo Sawamura

Tipo de mídia: DVD

Legendas: Português

Sinopse: In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river, promising to return in ten days. Genjurô, Tobei and Ohama raise a large...

Durante a guerra civil japonesa, no século 16, o pobre oleiro Genjuro e seu cunhado Tobei viajam com as respectivas mulheres à capital da província onde vivem, nas redondezas do lago Biwa, para vender utensílios de cerâmica. Com as vendas, Tobei compra armas e se torna samurai, abandonando a esposa. Genjuro, por sua vez, acaba passando vários dias no castelo da misteriosa Lady Wakasa, quando vai entregar as mercadorias.

Fonte: Cine Belas Artes