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)
1957
- An Osaka Story ... (Story)
1956
- Street of Shame ... (Director)
- Sisters of Gion ... (Original Story)
1955
- Taira Clan Saga ... (Director)
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei ... (Director)
1954
- Sansho the Bailiff ... (Director)
- Chikamatsu Monogatari ... (Director)
- The Woman in the Rumor ... (Director)
1952
- The Life of Oharu ... (Writer)
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
- Victory Song ... (Director)
- The Sword ... (Director)
1944
- Miyamoto Musashi ... (Director)
1941
- A Man of the Arts ... (Director)
- The 47 Ronin ... (Director)
1940
- 晴小袖 ... (Compositor)
- Osaka Woman ... (Writer)
1939
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum ... (Director)
1938
- Ah, My Hometown ... (Director)
1937
- The Straits of Love and Hate ... (Director)
1936
- Osaka Elegy ... (Director)
- Sisters of the Gion ... (Director)
1935
- Poppy ... (Director)
- Oyuki the Virgin ... (Director)
- The Downfall of Osen ... (Director)
- Miss Okichi ... (Co-Director)
1934
- The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate ... (Director)
1933
- The Water Magician ... (Director)
- The Feast of Gion ... (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)
- Metropolitan Symphony ... (Director)
- The Morning Sun Shines ... (Director)
1927
- Jihishincho ... (Director)
1926
- The Passion of a Woman Teacher ... (Director)
- A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring ... (Director)
1925
- Smiling Earth ... (Director)
- Song of Home ... (Director)
1923
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin ... (Director)
- The Homeland ... (Director)
- The Day Love Came Back ... (Director)
- Foggy Harbour ... (Director)
- Blood and Soul ... (Director)