Chikamatsu Monogatari

The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Screenplay

Yoshikata Yoda

Screenplay

Matsutarō Kawaguchi

Producer

Masaichi Nagata

Original Music Composer

Fumio Hayasaka

Original Music Composer

Tamezō Mochizuki

Director of Photography

Kazuo Miyagawa