Kenji Mizoguchi
Born: 1898-05-16 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1956-08-24
Known For: Directing
Biography
Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenji Mizoguchi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos as Self (archive footage)
1975
1957
- An Osaka Story ... (Story)
1956
- Street of Shame ... (Director)
- Sisters of Gion ... (Original Story)
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei ... (Director)
- Taira Clan Saga ... (Director)
1954
- Sansho the Bailiff ... (Director)
- Chikamatsu Monogatari ... (Director)
- The Woman in the Rumor ... (Director)
1952
- The Life of Oharu ... (Director)
1951
- Miss Oyu ... (Director)
- The Lady of Musashino ... (Director)
1950
- Portrait of Madame Yuki ... (Director)
1949
- Flame of My Love ... (Director)
1948
- Women of the Night ... (Director)
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako ... (Director)
1946
- Utamaro and His Five Women ... (Director)
- Victory of Women ... (Director)
1945
- The Sword ... (Director)
- Victory Song ... (Director)
1944
- Miyamoto Musashi ... (Director)
1941
- The 47 Ronin ... (Director)
- A Man of the Arts ... (Director)
1940
- 晴小袖 ... (Compositor)
- Osaka Woman ... (Director)
1939
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum ... (Director)
1938
- Ah, My Hometown ... (Director)
1937
- The Straits of Love and Hate ... (Director)
1936
- Sisters of the Gion ... (Director)
- Osaka Elegy ... (Director)
1935
- Miss Okichi ... (Co-Director)
- The Downfall of Osen ... (Director)
- Poppy ... (Director)
- Oyuki the Virgin ... (Director)
1934
- The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate ... (Director)
1933
- The Feast of Gion ... (Director)
- The Water Magician ... (Director)
1932
- The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia ... (Director)
1931
- And Yet They Go On ... (Director)
1930
- Mistress of a Foreigner ... (Director)
- Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown ... (Director)
1929
- Tokyo March ... (Director)
- The Morning Sun Shines ... (Director)
- Metropolitan Symphony ... (Director)
1927
- Jihishincho ... (Director)
1926
- A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring ... (Director)
- The Passion of a Woman Teacher ... (Director)
1925
- Song of Home ... (Director)
- Smiling Earth ... (Director)
1923
- The Day Love Came Back ... (Director)
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin ... (Director)
- The Homeland ... (Writer)
- Foggy Harbour ... (Director)
- Blood and Soul ... (Director)