Bosley Crowther wrote that the film had "a strangely obscure, inferential, almost studiedly perplexing quality" [REF].
Roger Ebert added Ugetsu to his Great Movies list in 2004, calling it "one of the greatest of all films", and that "At the end of Ugetsu, aware we have seen a fable, we also feel curiously as if we have witnessed true lives and fates."[REF]