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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...
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  • musician Mizoguchi Hidekatsu (溝口 秀勝, 1548–1610), Japanese samurai and daimyō Kazuhiro Mizoguchi, javelin thrower Kenji Mizoguchi, filmmaker Koji Mizoguchi (born...
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    Ugetsu (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    is a 1953 Japanese historical drama and fantasy film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō. It is based on two stories...
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  • children's literature Kenji Mizoguchi (健二, 1898–1956), Japanese film director Kenji Nagai (健司, 1957–2007), Japanese photographer Kenji Nagasaki (長崎健司), Japanese...
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    acting credits, but was best known for her 15 films with director Kenji Mizoguchi, such as The Life of Oharu (1952) and Ugetsu (1953). With her 1953...
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    and A Last Note. His screenplays were filmed by directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki...
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  • Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (ある映画監督の生涯 溝口健二の記録, Aru eiga-kantoku no shōgai Mizoguchi Kenji no kiroku) is a 1975 Japanese documentary...
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    Sansho the Bailiff (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    United Kingdom and Ireland) is a 1954 Japanese period film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi based on a 1915 short story of the same name by Mori Ōgai (translated...
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    The 47 Ronin (1941 film) (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    is a black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, adapted from a play by Seika Mayama. The first part was released on...
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  • also refer to: The 47 Ronin (1941 film), a Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, released as 47 Ronin in the...
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  • "Japaneseness," particularly compared to the work of the older director, Kenji Mizoguchi; b) accusations of sentimentality or didacticism; c) criticisms of...
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    critically acclaimed work with directors Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Kon Ichikawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kōzaburō Yoshimura...
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    spanning 70 years, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as Tokyo Story...
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  • artistic masterpieces, such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953), but also launching several film series, such as Gamera...
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    The Life of Oharu (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    of a woman") is a 1952 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda is based on various stories from...
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    The Idiot and The Bad Sleep Well. He also starred in pictures by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu), Mikio Naruse (Floating Clouds) and other prominent directors...
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    (1936)—Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi The Life of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna (西鶴一代女)) (1952)—Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi A Geisha (Gion bayashi (祇園囃子)) (1953)—Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi...
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    career which spanned 45 years, starring in works by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and others. Film historian Donald Richie...
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    Inoue. Some of the most discussed silent films from Japan are those of Kenji Mizoguchi, whose later works (including Ugetsu/Ugetsu Monogatari) retain a very...
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    began to win festival prizes and commercial release in the West were Kenji Mizoguchi (The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff) and, somewhat later...
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    Kaitaku no Hanayome, 1943). She worked closely with Japanese Director Kenji Mizoguchi and was credited as an Editor and/or Assistant Director for over 15...
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    Women of the Night (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    (夜の女たち, Yoru no onna-tachi) is a 1948 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka. In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow...
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    complete spectrum of genres. Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema. The Kon...
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    1970s. She is best known for playing geisha in several films, such as Kenji Mizoguchi's A Geisha, and the Forest Spirit in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood...
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    The Crucified Lovers (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    A Story from Chikamatsu, is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was adapted from Monzaemon Chikamatsu's 1715 bunraku play Daikyōji...
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    Sisters of the Gion (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi about two geisha sisters living in Kyoto's Gion district. It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy which shares...
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    A Geisha (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    Music (祇園囃子, Gion Bayashi) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, centred on the geisha milieu in post-war Gion, Kyoto. It is based...
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  • (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi Mildred Pierce...
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    Osaka Elegy (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    Elegy") is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion which shares much of the same...
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  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (category Films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi)
    the Late Chrysanthemums, is a 1939 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Based on a short story by Shōfu Muramatsu, it follows an onnagata...
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