 Photographed by Kazuo Miyagawa ("Rashomon," "Floating Weeds," "Tokyo Olympiad"), "The Crucified Lovers" features Mizoguchi's sequence shot aesthetic, recalling Japanese woodcuts and scroll paintings.Mizoguchi denounces the corruption and hypocrisy of feudal Japan, a society allegedly founded on the chivalrous values of honor, but in reality ruled by the power of money; where greed and social conformism (fear to be "dishonored") tragically crush love and honesty.He revinicates the innocent victims of this perverted society and, above all, women.