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Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi

Highest Rated:
100% Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
Lowest Rated:
80% Akasen chitai (Street of Shame) (1956)
Birthday:
May 16, 1898
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Kenji Mizoguchi entered the film world as a promoter of Western novelty in Japanese cinema and exited it as an acclaimed international director who exemplified Japan at its most traditional. After The Life of Oharu and Ugetsu won prizes in successive Venice Film Festivals in the early '50s,…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 80% - 100%
Number of Movies: 29
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Fujiwara Yoshie No Furusato
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2012 Miss Oyu (Oyû-sama)
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1979 Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love) (My Love Burns)
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1956 80% Akasen chitai (Street of Shame)
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1955 The Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yôkihi)
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1955 Shin Heike Monogatari (Taira Clan Saga) (The Taira Clan)
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1954 100% Sansho the Bailiff
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1954 Chikamatsu monogatari (The Crucified Lovers)
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1954 Uwasa no onna (The Crucified Woman)(The Woman in the Rumor)(The Woman of Rumour)
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1953 Gion bayashi (A Geisha)
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1953 100% Ugetsu monogatari
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1952 100% The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
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1951 Oyû-sama (Lady Ôyu) (Miss Oyu)
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1951 Lady Musashino (Musashino fujin)
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1950 Yuki Fujin Ezu (Portrait of Madame Yuki)
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1948 Yoru no onnatachi (Women of the Night)
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1947 Joyû Sumako no koi (The Love of Sumako the Actress)
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1946 Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna (Five Women Around Utamaro)
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1941 Forty-Seven Ronin - Pt. 1
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1941 Forty-Seven Ronin - Pt. 2
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1941 Genroku chushingura (The 47 Ronin)
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1939 Zangiku monogatari (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums)
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1937 Aien Kyo (The Straits of Love and Hate)
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1936 83% Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai)
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1936 Osaka Elegy (Woman of Osaka) (Naniwa erejî)
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1935 The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)
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1935 Gubijinso
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1933 Taki no shiraito (Cascading White Threads) (The Water Magician)
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1929 Tokyo koshin-kyoku (Tokyo March)
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