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:

80

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):

• Actresses -- Japan -- Drama
• Adoption -- Japan -- Drama
• Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
• Ambition -- Drama
• An, Lu-shan, 703-757 -- Drama
• Artists -- Japan -- Drama
• Artists' models -- Japan -- Drama
• Brothers and sisters -- Japan -- Drama
• Buddhism -- Japan -- Drama
• China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- Drama
• China -- Kings and rulers -- Drama
• China -- Princes and princesses -- Drama
• Circus performers -- Japan -- Drama
• Class conflict -- Japan -- Drama
• Dysfunctional families -- Japan -- Drama
• Feminism -- Japan -- Drama
• Feminists -- Japan -- Drama
• Filicide -- Japan -- Drama
• Forty-seven Ronin -- Drama
• Fukuda, Hideko, 1865-1927 -- Drama
• Fukuda, Hideko, 1865-1927 -- Film and video adaptations
• Geishas -- Japan -- Drama
• Honor -- Drama
• Husband and wife -- Japan -- Drama
• Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693. Koshoku ichidaionna -- Film and video adaptations
• Illegitimate children -- Japan -- Drama
• Infanticide -- Japan -- Drama
• Izumi, Kyoka, 1873-1939. Taki no Shiraito -- Film and video adaptations
• Japan -- History -- Ako vendetta, 1703 -- Drama
• Japan -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Drama
• Kabuki -- Drama
• Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 -- Drama
• Kunieda, Kanji, 1893-1956. Utamaro -- Film and video adaptations
• Lawyers -- Japan -- Drama
• Love -- Japan -- Drama
• Loyalty -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama
• Married people -- Japan -- Drama
• Mistresses -- Japan -- Drama
• Mothers and daughters -- Japan -- Drama
• Muramatsu, Shôfû, 1889-1961. Zangiku monogatari -- Film and video adaptations
• Nagata, Hideo, 1885-1949 -- Film and video adaptations
• Natsume, Soseki, 1867-1916. Gubijinso -- Film and video adaptations
• Nobility -- Japan -- Drama
• Noda, Kôgo, 1893-1968 -- Film and video adaptations
• Okada, Saburo -- Film and video adaptations
• Ooka, Shohei, 1909- . Musashino fujin -- Film and video adaptations
• Osaka (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 1930-1940 -- Drama
• Parent and child -- Japan -- Drama
• Political activists -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• Potters -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- 17th century -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Japan -- Drama
• Revenge -- Japan -- Drama
• Samurai -- Japan -- 16th century -- Drama
• Samurai -- Japan -- Drama
• Singers -- Japan -- Drama
• Sisters -- Japan -- Drama
• Swordfighting -- Japan -- Drama
• Swordplay -- Japan -- Drama
• Swords -- Japan -- Drama
• Swordsmen -- Japan -- Drama
• Swordsmiths -- Japan -- Drama
• Taira family -- Drama
• Tang Hsuan-tsung, Emperor of China, 685-762 -- Drama
• Theatrical producers and directors -- Japan -- Drama
• Trials (Murder) -- Japan -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
• Ueda, Akinari, 1734-1809. Ugetsu monogatari -- Film and video adaptations
• Women -- Japan -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Political activity -- 19th century -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 17th century -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 1930-1940 -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 1946 -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama
• Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Women lawyers -- Japan -- Drama
• Women's rights -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Drama
• Yang Kuei-fei -- Biography -- Drama

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