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A Story from Chikamatsu / The Woman in the Rumor 2-DVD Set ( Chikamatsu monogatari / Uwasa no onna ) ( The Crucified Lovers / The Crucified Woman ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

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"The crucified woman" is probably the most personal and heart-beating portrait around an impossible love.

Yukiko is a studied woman, daughter of the regent of a brothel. Her mother is a first class attendant respect her customers, high top managers who spent their money to have a good fun. She is disillusioned because of the fact her fiancé knew about her origin. And so the break of this compromise will leave her into a state of desperate hopeless and deep melancholy.

A friend of the family, a handsome doctor is secretly in love with
Yukiko, without realizing himself her mother loves him. He works out as a spiritual adviser for helping Yukiko to get out from that horrid depression. But when one of the working girls dies of cancer, she experiences a sudden twist of fate respect these abnegated women who live under a world of shadows but keeping that naive approach respect the life. On the meantime, she realizes her mother loves him and she decides to conclude this raising and promising relationship, that eventually would lead both of them to Tokyo because he planned to make a post grade and eventually to give his life a twist.

Kenji Mizoguchi depicted this haunting and poignant film keeping into account his own personal experiences about this underworld and the anonymous human beings who live inside it.

Another masterwork in the fruitful artistic trajectory of this remarkable director.