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Bookmark or Share- The Tales and Tragedies of Kenji MizoguchiKenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was a foundational figure of the Japanese cinema and one of its uncontestably supreme artists. Mizoguchi remains best known today for his late masterworks of the 1950s and especially The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu and Sansho the ...
- Kenji Mizoguchi - IMDbKenji Mizoguchi. Director: Ugetsu. Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922.
- Kenji Mizoguchi: 10 essential films | BFIKenji Mizoguchi: 10 essential films. Some must-see titles from the long career of one of the great masters of Japanese cinema, famed for his exquisite travelling shots and fierce critiques of his country’s patriarchal inequality.
- Mizoguchi Kenji: The overlooked master of Japanese cinema’s golden ageYet in the 1950s, the highest praise was reserved for their elder contemporary Mizoguchi Kenji (1898-1956), whose late masterpieces earned comparisons with Tolstoy from Lindsay Anderson and Homer from Eric Rohmer, both of whom went on to become celebrated filmmakers themselves.
- Mizoguchi - Museum of the Moving ImageMizoguchi, whose masterful use of tracking shots and compositions that move between close-ups and tableaus, always viewed his deeply human dramas with a cosmic perspective.
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