Beauty and the Thief
★★★★★
Japanese / 80 MIN. / 1952
The Genres
The Synopsis
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.