Mizoguchi’s fable is far darker than one might expect. It’s a long way from Disney, in spite of its fantastical nature. The film shifts through the gears as it narrates the story of an ambitious potter, caught up in the wars of medieval Japan. Moving between comic and tragic registers, it finally settles in a fantasy world of spirits, incorporating a spiritual embodiment of death and what death might mean. The director delights in the spectral, the ghost ship that drifts through the mist to find us all, sooner or later.
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