Ugetsu , also known as Tales of Ugetsu , The Tales of the Wave after the Rain Moon and Ugetsu Monogatari ( 雨月物語 ), is a 1953 Japanese romantic fantasy drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and based on stories in Ueda Akinari 's 1776 book of the same name . It is a ghost story and an example of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre, starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō .



