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is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and based on stories in Ueda Akinari's book of the same name. It is a ghost story and an example of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre. Set in Azuchi–Momoyama period Japan, it stars Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is one of Mizoguchi's most celebrated films, regarded by critics as a masterwork of Japanese cinema and a definitive piece during Japan's Golden Age of Film. Along with Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, Ugetsu is credited with having popularized Japanese cinema in the West.
Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963. The album marked Riverside's recording debut at Birdland, one of the most famous and celebrated American jazz clubs.
The original LP had six tracks and producer Orrin Keepnews stated in the liner notes that "there were other performances taped that night that couldn't be fitted into the resulting album". When the album was released on CD, Keepnews added three new tracks that were recorded that night. The Jazz Messengers' tour in Japan had ended a few months before this live performance; then the band decided to play two tracks as a homage to Japan: the eponymous "Ugetsu" and "On the Ginza".
It was remastered in 2010 and reissued the following year by Original Jazz Classics, with a previously unissued track, "Conception".
Ugetsu is a 1953 Japanese film by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Ugetsu may also refer to:
- Ugetsu Monogatari or Tales of Moonlight and Rain, a collection of stories by Ueda Akinari on which the film is based
- Ugetsu (album), a 1963 jazz recording by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- Ugetsu (Suikoden), a character in Suikoden IV