Kenji Mizoguchi
Born: 1898-05-16 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1956-08-24
Known For: Directing
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.
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
- 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 ... (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
- Victory Song ... (Director)
- The Famous Sword Bijomaru ... (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
- 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
- Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown ... (Director)
- Mistress of a Foreigner ... (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
- Song of Home ... (Director)
- Smiling Earth ... (Director)
1924
- Chronicle of May Rain ... (Director)
1923
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin ... (Director)
- Foggy Harbour ... (Director)
- The Day Love Came Back ... (Director)
- Blood and Soul ... (Director)
- The Homeland ... (Writer)