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Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppres…
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entertainment · Japanese filmmaker (1898–1956) · film director · screenwriter · director · also Kenji Mizoguchi, Mizoguchi Kenji, Mizoguchi
Born 16 May 1898 · Died 24 August 1956 · Q55401
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Moviefone: Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director - Where to Watch
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2021· 1 entry
“SolarWinds, Ken Burns, Best Band in the Land”
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2016· 1 entry
The A.V. Club: Kenji Mizoguchi made masterpieces, but nothing as strange as Miyamoto Musashi
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2015· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: FSLC Announces Kenji Mizoguchi's THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM NY Theatrical Premiere
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2014· 1 entry
IndieWire: Museum of Moving Image to Hold First U.S. Kenji Mizoguchi Retrospective in Twenty Years
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1975· 1 entry
Kaneto Shindō, a set designer, chief assistant director and scenarist for Mizoguchi in the late 1930s and 1940s, released a documentary about his former mentor, Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director, as well as pu
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1956· 1 entry
Died 1956-08-24.
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director for The Crucified Lovers (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Sansho the Bailiff (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion for Ugetsu (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for The Life of Oharu (1952).
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1932· 1 entry
Mizoguchi left Nikkatsu and worked for a variety of studios and production companies
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1927· 1 entry
Mizoguchi met and quickly fell in love with Chieko Saga, a dancer from Osaka
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1923· 1 entry
The Nikkatsu studios in Mukojima was destroyed in the Great Kantō Earthquake, so Mizoguchi moved to Nikkatsu's studios in Kyoto
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1922· 1 entry
Mizoguchi was promoted to director, and his directorial debut was released the following year, The Resurrection of Love
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1920· 1 entry
Mizoguchi spoke with his friend Tadashi Tomioka, an actor at the Nikkatsu film studio in Mukojima, Tokyo, who suggested that Mizoguchi try to become an actor
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1917· 1 entry
His sister again helped him to find work, this time as an advertisement designer with the Yuishin Nippon newspaper in Kobe
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1913· 1 entry
His sister Suzu secured him an apprenticeship as a designer for a yukata manufacturer, and in 1915, after the mother's death, she brought both her younger brothers into her own house
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1911· 1 entry
Mizoguchi's parents, too poor to continue paying for their son's primary school training, sent him to stay with an uncle in Morioka in northern Japan for a year, where he finished primary school
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-05-16.
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