Name: Utamaro and His Five Women
Genre: Drama
Released: 1946-12-17
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kōtarō Bandō, Hiroko Kawasaki, Toshiko Iizuka

1946·Drama·1h 34m

7.1

★

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women vie for lovers, and, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

IMDB

N/A

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Okita

Kōtarō Bandō

Seinosuke

Hiroko Kawasaki

Oran

Toshiko Iizuka

Takasode

Crew

Kenji Mizoguchi

Director

Kanji Kunieda

Novel

Popular Reviews

10 reviews

Eclectic Sorcerer

8.0★ · 11/21/25

Mizoguchi, I have watched half of his films and according to the averages he is supposed to have 15 better than this. I am excited.

Eclectic Sorcerer

8.0★ · 11/21/25

Mizoguchi, I have watched half of his films and according to the averages he is supposed to have 15 better than this. I am excited.

Joakim

8.0★ · 05/28/25

En litt svakere Mizoguchi enn de andre jeg har sett, men fremdel en ganske god film her. Likte veldig godt dramaet som dukket opp underveis mellom Okita og Typen.

Geatanoe Rizzo

8.0★ · 01/21/25

Cool story about an artist form the Edo period in Japan

MattiMor

7.0★ · 06/18/26