The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum.
A new “Magnifying Class” is taking place today at the University of Oxford. We turn our attention to The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Zangiku monogatari, 1939), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, a narratively simple but formally complex meditation on the art of theatre and the life of artists in a Japanese society divided by classism and sexism.
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