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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
May 12, 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.
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.
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.
Aug 12, 2008 · The Art of Kenji Mizoguchi. August 12, 2008. In 1958, hard on the heels of a retrospective at the Cinémathèque of the films of the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, who died in 1956,...
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. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the ...
Kenji Mizoguchi’s sublime cinema of doomed lovers and self-martyring women often mirrored his tortured soul and tumultuous life. His artistic beginnings and romantic exploits read like something out of a trashy pulp novel.
