Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese film director and screenwriter (1898-1956)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1898-05-16
- Died
- 1956-08-24
- Works
- 1
Top works
- DNA Engineering
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Film & TV
Directing · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
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…
Known for
- Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos — Self (archive footage)2021
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director — Self1975
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Country
- JP
- Active from
- 1960-04-23
Article
Kenji Mizoguchi travelling through Europe, 1953
Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二, Mizoguchi Kenji; 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema.