'Ugetsu'

Ugetsu is a Japanese ghost story directed by the famed Kenji Mizoguchi.

Mizoguchi was born in 1989 and died just three years after Ugetsu was released in 1953. According to stories, Mizoguchi would often have a film finished in weeks. Thus, he did more than 50 films in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1923, he moved to a studio in Kyoto, until he was suspended because the call girl he was living with attacked and wounded Mizoguchi with a razor blade.

Ugetsu is a form of jidai-geki, a film that focused on Japanese history and folktales. He made a series of these after World War II including The Life of Oharu.

Just years after making a major resurgence among filmgoers, Mizoguchi died of leukemia at age 58.