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JAPANESE director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was famous for his sublime, stately pictorial style -- and even more for his compassion for women caught in often cruel circumstances, reflecting ...
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.
KENJI MIZOGUCHI (1898-1956) From a life of extreme poverty and tragedy, Kenji Mizoguchi became a visual artist of extraordinary sophistication.
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 ...
— 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.
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 … ...
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, ...
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