Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatari by Lady Murasaki.
Cinematography
Eastmancolor so lush you'll weep at a kimono.
Production
Heian-period sets that cost more than some countries.
Acting
Fujiko Yamamoto's face does what scripts cannot.
Director
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kinugasa shot this simultaneously with 'Gate of Hell' in the same studio, stealing resources between sets like a madman.
The Ukifune chapters were so psychologically complex that Murasaki's contemporaries debated if a woman could have written them. Spoiler: she did.
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