Person Detail
Kenji Mizoguchi
Catalogued films 46Director 45
Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二, Mizoguchi Kenji, 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about 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 latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema.
Filmography
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Street of Shame
Taira Clan Saga
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Chikamatsu Monogatari
The Woman in the Rumor
Sansho the Bailiff
A Geisha
Ugetsu
The Life of Oharu
The Lady of Musashino
Miss Oyu
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Flame of My Love
Women of the Night
The Love of Sumako the Actress
Utamaro and His Five Women
Victory of Women
The Sword
Victory Song
Miyamoto Musashi
The 47 Ronin
Osaka Woman
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
The Straits of Love and Hate
Sisters of the Gion
Osaka Elegy
Poppy
Oyuki the Virgin
The Downfall of Osen
The Feast of Gion
The Water Magician
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Tôjin Okichi
Metropolitan Symphony
Nihonbashi
Asahi wa kagayaku
Tôkyô kôshinkyoku
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
The Passion of a Woman Teacher- KAKane
- KAKaikoku danji
Furusato no uta- NINingen: kôhen
- THThe Homeland
- KIKiri no minato
