残菊物語
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
溝口の「芸道三部作」のうち唯一現存する作品。家柄だけでスターになった若手歌舞伎役者（花柳）と厳しく彼の芸を見守る女性（森）との4年間に亘る身分違いの悲恋を描く。長回しのスタイルはその完成度を高め、立体的に捉えられた歌舞伎舞台などダイナミックかつ奥行のある場面が連続、クライマックスは崇高なまでの輝きを放つ。The only surviving entry in Mizoguchi’s “performing arts trilogy.” It follows the four-year, ill-fated romance between Kikunosuke (Shotaro Hanayagi), a young kabuki actor whose fame derives solely from his prestigious family, and Otoku (Kakuko Mori), who earnestly urges him to improve. The work in which Mizoguchi’s signature long takes achieved their full maturity, the film features strikingly choreographed kabuki scenes full of impressive depth and dynamism, building to a finale of sumptuous visual grandeur.
This masterpiece period drama, based on the novel of the same name by Socho Muramatsu about the tragic love of the second-generation Onoe Kikunosuke, became one of director Kenji Mizoguchi's representative works. Kikunosuke, raised and pampered as the adopted son of the fifth-generation Onoe Kikugoro, falls in love with O-Toku, his younger brother's wet nurse, who is the only one who frankly points out his immature acting. However, those around them fiercely oppose their love across social classes. Kikunosuke runs away from home with O-Toku to Osaka, where he becomes a traveling actor and lives a poor life, but...
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