Kenji Mizoguchi
May 16, 1898 · 128 years old
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…
Known For
13 titles
Ugetsu
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
The Life of Oharu
Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.
A Story from Chikamatsu
Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Street of Shame
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.
Sisters of the Gion
Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
The 47 Ronin
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Osaka Elegy
A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.
A Geisha
A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.
Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnos...
Women of the Night
A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.
The Woman of Rumour
Yukiko's mother runs a lodging house for courtesans in Kyoto. When her fiance learns this, he ends their engagement. Yukiko despises what her mother does until one of her mother's clients shows interest in her and starts to woo her.