The complete Mizoguchi: a retrospective of the films of Kenji Mizoguchi

Document source:

University of Michigan

Publication date:

1989 Aug 28

Document language:

English

Document type:

press release

Number of pages:

12

Document name subject:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Related films:

• Taki no Shiraito (The water magician) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1933
• Naniwa erejî (Osaka elegy) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1936
• Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1936
• 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
• 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
• Yoru no onnatachi (Women of the night) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1948
• Waga koi wa moenu (My love has been burning) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1949
• Oyû-sama (Miss Oyu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1951
• Saikaku ichidai onna (The life of Oharu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1952
• Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1953
• Gion bayashi (A geisha) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1953
• Sanshô dayû (Sansho the bailiff) — 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
• Chikamatsu monogatari (A story from chikamatsu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1955
• Akasen chitai (Street of shame) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1956

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., and Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Biographical, Crime, Drama, Fallen woman, Family, Feature, Historical, Legal, Melodrama, Political, Romance, Social problem, Thriller, and Women

Film subject(s):

• Actresses -- Japan -- Drama
• Adoption -- Japan -- Drama
• Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
• An, Lu-shan, 703-757 -- Drama
• Artisans -- Japan -- 1600-1868 -- Drama
• Artists -- Japan -- Drama
• Artists' models -- 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
• Family life -- Japan -- Drama
• Fatherless families -- Japan -- Drama
• Female friendship -- Japan -- Drama
• Feminism -- Japan -- Drama
• Feminists -- Japan -- Drama
• Filicide -- Japan -- Drama
• Folklore -- Japan -- Drama
• Forty-seven Ronin -- Drama
• Fukuda, Hideko, 1865-1927 -- Drama
• Fukuda, Hideko, 1865-1927 -- Film and video adaptations
• Geishas -- Japan -- Drama
• Hisaita, Eijirô, 1898-1976. Joseimatsuri -- Film and video adaptations
• 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 -- 11th century -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Ako vendetta, 1703 -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868 -- Drama
• Japan -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Drama
• Kabuki -- Drama
• Kawaguchi, Matsutaro, 1899- -- Film and video adaptations
• Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806 -- Drama
• Kunieda, Kanji, 1893-1956. Utamaro -- Film and video adaptations
• Kyoto (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Drama
• Lawyers -- Japan -- Drama
• Legends -- Japan -- Drama
• Love -- Japan -- Drama
• Loyalty -- Drama
• Married people -- Japan -- Drama
• Mistresses -- Japan -- Drama
• Mori, Ogai, 1862-1922. Sansho-dayu -- Film and video adaptations
• Muramatsu, Shôfû, 1889-1961. Zangiku monogatari -- Film and video adaptations
• Nagata, Hideo, 1885-1949 -- Film and video adaptations
• Nobility -- Japan -- Drama
• Noda, Kôgo, 1893-1968 -- Film and video adaptations
• Okada, Saburo -- 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
• Prostitution -- Japan -- Drama
• Samurai -- Japan -- 16th century -- Drama
• Samurai -- Japan -- Drama
• Sex and law -- Japan -- 1600-1868 -- Drama
• Shibaki, Yoshiko, 1914- -- Film and video adaptations
• Sisters -- Japan -- Drama
• Slavery -- Japan -- Drama
• Social classes -- Japan -- Drama
• Taira family -- Drama
• Tang Hsuan-tsung, Emperor of China, 685-762 -- Drama
• Tanizaki, Junichiro, 1886-1965 -- Film and video adaptations
• 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
• Widowhood -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Drama
• Widows -- Japan -- Drama
• 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
• Yang Kuei-fei -- Biography -- Drama

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