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A scene from Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 "Ugetsu".
Japan also produced critiques of its own blood-lust, most profoundly in Kenji Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu," about two couples who endure every degradation of war, beyond pain, beyond death. It is a ghost story, a horror story and a haunting masterpiece.

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