Life of Oharu
1964
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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.
Kenji 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.
May 15, 2015 · Kenji 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.
Jun 23, 2014 · Kenji 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 ...
Oct 4, 2002 · Mizoguchi, Kenji. b. May 16, 1898, Tokyo, Japan. d. August 24, 1956, Kyoto, Japan. “The comparisons are as inevitable as they are unfashionable,” wrote James Quandt, introducing the centenary retrospective of the films of Kenji Mizoguchi. “Mizoguchi is cinema’s Shakespeare, its Bach or Beethoven, its Rembrant, Titian or Picasso.”.
Kenji Mizoguchi’s sublime cinema of doomed lovers and self-martyring women often mirrored his tortured soul and tumultuous life. His artistic beginnings and romantic exploits read like something out of a trashy pulp novel.
May 2, 2014 · Kenji Mizoguchi is a filmmaker of astonishing contrasts—one of the most furious and fiercely critical political filmmakers of all time.
Jun 23, 2024 · Yet 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.
May 12, 2024 · Mizoguchi Kenji (born May 16, 1898, Tokyo, Japan—died Aug. 24, 1956, Kyōto) was a Japanese motion-picture director whose pictorially beautiful films dealt with the nature of reality, the conflict between modern and traditional values, and the redeeming quality of a woman’s love.
Aug 12, 2008 · The Art of Kenji Mizoguchi. 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 Godard...
