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Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二, Mizoguchi Kenji, 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956.
May 15, 2015 · Kenji Mizoguchi: 10 essential films. Some must-see titles from the long career of one of the great masters of Japanese cinema, famed for his exquisite travelling shots and fierce critiques of his country’s patriarchal inequality.
Kenji Mizoguchi. Director: Ugetsu. Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922.
Jun 23, 2014 · Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was a foundational figure of the Japanese cinema and one of its uncontestably supreme artists. Mizoguchi remains best known today for his late masterworks of the 1950s and especially The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu and Sansho the ...
Oct 4, 2002 · filmography. bibliography. articles in Senses. web resources. “The comparisons are as inevitable as they are unfashionable,” wrote James Quandt, introducing the centenary retrospective of the films of Kenji Mizoguchi. “Mizoguchi is cinema’s Shakespeare, its Bach or Beethoven, its Rembrant, Titian or Picasso.”.
May 2, 2014 · Kenji Mizoguchi is a filmmaker of astonishing contrasts—one of the most furious and fiercely critical political filmmakers of all time.
Aug 20, 2024 · Mizoguchi Kenji (born May 16, 1898, Tokyo, Japan—died Aug. 24, 1956, Kyōto) was a Japanese motion-picture director whose pictorially beautiful films dealt with the nature of reality, the conflict between modern and traditional values, and the redeeming quality of a woman’s love.
One of Yoda Yoshikata’s most polished and pointed scripts is at the heart of this compelling drama set in present-day Kyoto. Two outstanding actresses, Kogure Michiyo and the then 19-year-old star Wakao Ayako, star as an experienced geisha and her young apprentice (maiko).
May 5, 2014 · The monthlong retrospective of all the extant films by the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) at Museum of the Moving Image is a long-overdue tribute to his supreme artistry.
May 8, 2012 · In the last five years of his life, Kenji Mizoguchi (1898–1956; born 114 years ago next week) made nine films, nearly all of which are considered transcendent masterpieces. Even if he had died earlier, Mizoguchi had earned a place as one of the cinema’s greatest masters of mise-en-scène.
