this be certainly a good film and beautifully photograph and evocatively act . yet one should certainly criticize it and and mizoguchi and for it be not without flaw and weakness . mizoguchi really care for woman and and want to make statement on man lack of sympathy and total cruelty and yet he sometimes get ahead of himself in try to make this statement by adopt the wrong mean . this be certainly a case in the crucified lover and princess yang kwei fei and zankiku monogatari . he set the scenario in feudal japan and which leave the viewer at the end with the partially right exclamation represent boy and do feudalism suck and i be glad that it be over . and true and some of the scenario such weak film of mizoguchi present would be literary impossible today . also and his woman character sometimes become archetype of unrealistic self sacrifice and which also simplify the scenario less appeal . say that and crucify lover be a good film and with such few relative weakness and though the sometimes chilly and cynical prose by ueda and the screenwriter help this film allot . i still highly prefer and recommend mizoguchi realistic and contemprary film of 1936 represent osaka elegy and sister of the gion and as well a his late masterpiece and in which he show more restraint and subtlety represent ugetsu and sansho dayu and and the life of oharu .