🎃💀Hooptober 2020: Film 21/67💀🎃

Director Kenji Mizoguchi told his cinematographer that he wanted to create the illusion that the film unrolled seamlessly like a Chinese scroll-painting. The enchanting nature of its camerawork, which consisted of 70% crane-shot footage, the editing, and music all achieve this to give Ugetsu a strikingly hypnotic effect long before any of the paranormal elements begin to unfold.

Another reason the seamless flow of the film is so impressive is that adapts "The House in the Thicket" and "The Lust of the White Serpent," two separate short stories by Ueda Akinari into one tragic narrative.

Really excited to go back and watch this one again soon.