Mizoguchi: Osaka Elegy (1936)

Naniwa Erejî (Osaka Elegy) (1936)
(source: The Iron Cupcake)
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You can recognize in this movie the mark of genius. The story is very sad, while told with amazing cheerfulness. It's like the whole universe is populated exclusively by jerks: a jerky universe frozen in a frenetic party. Everybody's happy here: it's black happiness.

Osaka Elegy, 1936
(video by modernrocksong)

(Kenji Mizoguchi)