Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese film director
Died when: 58 years 100 days (699 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Kenji Mizoguchi (?? ??, Mizoguchi Kenji, 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about 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 oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan.Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema.
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