As the Baal Shem Tov haKadosh sat in his sukkah, a great tumult raged outside. In the early days of the Chasidic movement, some of its revolutionary practices, as well as the spiritual awakening of the followers of the Baal Shem Tov, drew prejudice, strife, and legal controversy. While detractors and opponents were always on […]
In our Spring 1962 issue, this in-depth look at Mizoguchi’s now-seventy-year-old ghost tale heralded it as “possibly the greatest” of the Japanese master’s films.