Kenji Mizoguchi's final film was on one of his favorite subjects: prostitutes. After a spate of universally lauded period...
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1956
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Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this tale of "Heike"...
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1955
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1955
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Like much of his work, Kenji Mizoguchi directs this film about an aging geisha in Kyoto's Shimabara district longing for...
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1954
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1954
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Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece opens in 11th-century Japan with an aristocratic woman Tamaki traveling through the woods with...
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1954
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1953
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Presented in a manner as eerie as it is heartbreaking, this film is a gorgeous supernatural fable about the folly of men with...
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1953
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Life of Oharu features Kinuyo Tanaka in the title role. Oharu is a middle-aged prostitute in 17th century Japan. As she prays...
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1952
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1951
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Japan's contributions to the 1957 Venice Film Festival included three earlier-vintage Kenzi Mizoguchi films. Produced in...
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1951
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1950
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This groundbreaking study in social criticism was made by one of the earliest revolutionaries in Japanese filmmaking, Kenji...
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1949
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Yoru no Onnatachi (Women of the Night) was one of three Kenji Mizoguchi films entered into competition at the 1957 Venice...
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1948
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1946
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The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate,...
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1946
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1945
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1944
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1944
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1941
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Part Two of Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi's 47 Ronin contines to follow the course of vengeance plotted by Ronin...
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1941
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Produced over a two-year period, Kenji Mizoguchi's version of the oft-filmed Seika Mayama story The 47 Ronin was too big to...
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1941
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Story of the Late Chrysanthemum (Zangiku monogatari) was the only film made in 1939 by the astonishingly prolific Japanese...
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1939
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1938
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1937
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This is one of director Kenji Mizoguchi's first true masterworks in his long, highly celebrated career. Ayako, a young...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1934
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Early Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi directs the black-and-white silent drama Taki No shiraito, based on the tragic novel...
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1933
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1932
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1930
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1929
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1929
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1929
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1929
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1923
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1923
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1923
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1922
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