Criterion Collection is releasing a high-def version of Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi's 1952 drama 'The Life of Oharu,' which centers on a woman's hard life.

Kenji Mizoguchi is a filmmaker of astonishing contrasts—one of the most furious and fiercely critical political filmmakers of all time.

At once monumental and light as mist, Kenji Mizoguchi’s ravishing ghost fantasia Ugetsu (released in 1953 and set in 16th-century Japan) finds its peasant potters fleeing the circumstances of ...

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. 1937, 108 mins. 35mm print from the National Film Center. With Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu. Set in a country inn in the northern mountains of Shinsu, ...

— Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi, subject of a truly wonderful and inspiring retrospective at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, was […] Skip to content.

The recent release of Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sansho The Bailiff (1954) on DVD in the United States provides an excellent opportunity for viewers here to become better acquainted ...

Miyamoto Musashi, one of a slew of patriotic films about swordsmen produced in wartime Japan, is the closest thing to a B-movie that survives from the work of the great director Kenji Mizoguchi.In ...

In 1958, hard on the heels of a retrospective at the Cinémathèque of the films of the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, who died in 1956, Jean-Luc … ...

Known for the exquisite beauty of his films and hailed as one of the greatest filmmakers ever by many critics, scholars, and filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) produced 85 films that spanned ...

When director Kenji Mizoguchi died of leukemia in 1956 he was 58 and a leading figure in world cinema, championed by members of the French New Wave, and the recipient of major prizes at the Venice ...