Life of Oharu is to have a cinema release (with The Lady of Musashino) in London next month. So should get a video re-release. Ugetsu, Sansho and Tales of the Taira Clan are on video in UK (can be rented or bought by mail order from MovieMail) but may not suit US machines?

It's staggering that such a great director (4 films in Sight and Sound critics' top 100) should be so neglected. And the literature on him is hardly overflowing. At least there's a forthcoming book "Mizoguchi and Japan" (?) by Mark le Fanu who did an excellent one, though with a few errors caused in translation, on Tarkovsky.