As part of its ongoing Kenji Mizoguchi retrospective, UCLA screens the late, great filmmaker’s Utamaro and His Five Women at 7:30. The director drew on his own experience of having his artistic vision compromised — first by Japan’s wartime government, then by the occupying U.S. military — in crafting this story of a 17th-century printmaker who receives a 50-day ban from working on his art. More info at cinema.ucla.edu.

Mon., Jan. 26, 7:30-9:15 p.m., 2015
(Expired: 01/26/15)

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