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The Story of the last chrysanthemums

RomanceDrama

Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi

Overview

The chronicle of a Kabuki actor. As the son of a prominent Kabuki family, the young man would be assured eventual fame, but he runs afoul of his father by falling in love with a servant girl and sets out to make it on his own. Contains some use of compositions suggestive of cinemascope before the widescreen process was invented

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