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Kenji Mizoguchi

Highest Rated: 100% Ugetsu (1953)

Lowest Rated: 80% Street of Shame (1956)

Birthday: May 16, 1898

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Mizoguchi's life spanned the most important years of the development of the Japanese cinema. Although he made over 85 films in a career that stretched over 30 years, over 50 of them have been lost, primarily through studio fires, the ravages of war or poor preservation methods. Those that remain include leftist-inspired "tendency films," literary adaptations, historical dramas, proto-feminist critiques, Meiji-period pieces and--from the later stage of his career--works of a more transcendental and symphonic nature.

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Highest rated movies

100% 93% Ugetsu
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100% 89% Life of Oharu
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100% 93% Chikamatsu Monogatari
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100% 94% A Geisha
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100% 95% Sansho the Bailiff
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100% 75% Osaka Elegy
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100% 75% Utamaro and His Five Women
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94% 91% The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
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89% 77% Sisters of the Gion
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80% 82% Street of Shame
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Kenji Mizoguchi

UGETSU, (aka UGETSU MONOGATARI, aka TALES OF THE PALE AND SILVERY MOON AFTER THE RAIN, aka TALES OF A PALE AND MYSTERIOUS MOON AFTER THE RAIN), standing in white coat: director Kenji Mizoguchi; seated right in print kimono: Masayuki Mori, on set, 1953 View more photos

Filmography

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80% 82% Street of Shame Director - 1956
No Score Yet 76% Princess Yang Kwei-fei Director - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shin Heike Monogatari Director - 1955
No Score Yet 68% The Taira Clan Saga Director - 1955
100% 93% Chikamatsu Monogatari Director - 1954
100% 95% Sansho the Bailiff Director - 1954
No Score Yet 78% The Woman in the Rumor Director - 1954
100% 93% Ugetsu Director - 1953
100% 94% A Geisha Director - 1953
100% 89% Life of Oharu Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 1952
No Score Yet 83% Miss Oyu (Oyû-sama) Director - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miss Oyu Director - 1951
No Score Yet 95% The Lady of Musashino Director - 1951
No Score Yet 71% Portrait of Madame Yuki Director - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Love Has Been Burning Director - 1949
No Score Yet 80% Women of the Night Director - 1948
No Score Yet 50% The Love of Sumako the Actress Director - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Victory of Women Director - 1946
100% 75% Utamaro and His Five Women Director - 1946
No Score Yet 60% The Famous Sword Bijomaru Director - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miyamoto Musashi Director - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 47 Ronin Part II Director - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 47 Ronin Part I Director - 1941
No Score Yet 73% Forty-Seven Ronin - Pt. 2 Director - 1941
No Score Yet 81% The 47 Ronin Director - 1941
94% 91% The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Director - 1939
No Score Yet 67% The Straits of Love and Hate Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1937
100% 75% Osaka Elegy Director - 1936
89% 77% Sisters of the Gion Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Downfall of Osen Director - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oyuki, the Virgin Director - 1935
No Score Yet 67% Gubijinso Director - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miss Okichi Director - 1935
No Score Yet 77% The Water Magician Director - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Threads of the Waterfall Director - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home Town Director - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring Director,
Film Editor 		- 1926
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Song of Home Director - 1925