Kenji Mizoguchi
- Directing
- May 16, 1898 · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
- August 24, 1956
Biography
Kenji Mizoguchi (16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène. His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they confront human suffering.
Known for
Filmography
- Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos · Self
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director · Self
- An Osaka Story · Story
- Sisters of Gion · Story
- Street of Shame · Director
- Taira Clan Saga · Director
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei · Director
- Chikamatsu Monogatari · Director
- The Woman in the Rumor · Director
- Sansho the Bailiff · Director
- A Geisha · Director
- Ugetsu · Director
- The Life of Oharu · Director, Writer
- The Lady of Musashino · Director
- Miss Oyu · Director
- Portrait of Madame Yuki · Director
- Flame of My Love · Director
- Women of the Night · Director
- The Love of the Actress Sumako · Director
- Utamaro and His Five Women · Director
- Victory of Women · Director
- Victory Song · Director
- The Famous Sword Bijomaru · Director
- Miyamoto Musashi · Director
- The 47 Ronin · Director
- A Man of the Arts · Director
- 晴小袖 · Compositor
- Osaka Woman · Director, Writer
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum · Director
- Ah, My Hometown · Director
- The Straits of Love and Hate · Director, Writer
- Sisters of the Gion · Director, Writer
- Osaka Elegy · Director, Story
- Poppy · Director
- Miss Okichi · Co-Director
- Oyuki the Virgin · Director
- The Downfall of Osen · Director
- The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate · Director
- The Feast of Gion · Director, Writer
- The Water Magician · Director
- The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia · Director
- And Yet They Go On · Director
- Mistress of a Foreigner · Director
- Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown · Director
- Tokyo March · Director
- The Morning Sun Shines · Director
- Metropolitan Symphony · Director
- Jihishincho · Director
- The Passion of a Woman Teacher · Director
- A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring · Director
- Song of Home · Director
- Smiling Earth · Director
- Chronicle of May Rain · Director
- Blood and Soul · Director
- Foggy Harbour · Director
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin · Director, Screenplay
- The Homeland · Writer, Director
- The Day Love Came Back · Director