Mizoguchi the master

Document author(s):

Noël Burch, Donald Richie, Robin Wood, Kenji Mizoguchi, Leonard Schrader, Isuzu Yamada, Joan Mellen, Gerald O'Grady, Max Tessier, James Dudley Andrew, Kyoko Hirano, David Bordwell, Tadao Sato, Keiko I. McDonald, Yoshikata Yoda, Shin Okada, Donald Kirihara, Freda Freiberg, Adriana Apra, Matsuo Kishi, Tsuneo Hazumi, Hajime Takizawa, Masaghige Narusawa, Hiroshi Mizutani, Koji Asaka, Joanne R. Bernardi, Darrell William Davis, Chika Kinoshita, Kato Mikiro, James Leach, Antonio Santos, Mark Le Fanu, Linda C. Ehrlich, Carole Cavanaugh, Joseph Murphy, and Scott Nygren

Document source:

Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

Document name subject:

Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoshikata Yoda

Document contains:

cost info and production co

Related films:

Fujiwara Yoshie no Furusato (Home town) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1930
Taki no Shiraito (The water magician) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1933
Gubijinsô (Poppy) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1935
Naniwa erejî (Osaka elegy) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1936
Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1936
Aien kyo (The straits of love and hate) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1937
Zangiku monogatari (The story of the last chrysanthemums) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1939
Genroku chushingura (The loyal forty-seven ronin of the genroku era) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1942
Miyamoto Musashi (Musashi Miyamoto) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1944
Meito Bijomaru (The famous sword Bijomaru) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1945
Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (Utamaro and his five women) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1946
Josei no shôri (The victory of women) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1946
Joyû Sumako no koi (The love of Sumako the actress) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1947
Waga koi wa moenu (My love has been burning) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1949
Musashino fujin (Lady Musashino) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1951
Saikaku ichidai onna (The life of Oharu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1952
Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1953
Uwasa no onna (A woman of rumor) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1954
Shin Heike monogatari (The Taira Clan saga) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1955
Yôkihi (Princess Yang Kwei-Fei) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan; Hong Kong — 1955

Film country(ies):

Hong Kong and Japan

Film language(s):

Japanese

Film production company:

Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd., Irie, Koi Productions, Shintoho Company Ltd., Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, and Toho Kabushiki Kaisha

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Adventure, Biographical, Crime, Drama, Fallen woman, Family, Fantasy, Feature, Historical, Legal, Martial arts, Maternal melodrama, Melodrama, Political, Romance, Social problem, Thriller, and Women

Film subject(s):