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Showing posts with label Kenji Mizoguchi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenji Mizoguchi. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2018

Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1948)

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Kinuyo Tanaka and Sanae Takasugi in Women of the Night Fusako Owada : Kinuyo Tanaka Natsuko Kimijima : Sanae Takasugi Kumiko Owada : T...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)

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Isuzu Yamada and Fumio Okura in Sisters of the Gion Omocha : Isuzu Yamada Umekichi : Yoko Umemura Shimbei Furusawa : Benkei Shiganoya ...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)

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Yosuke Irie and Aiko Mimasu in Street of Shame Mickey : Machiko Kyo Yasumi : Ayako Wakao Hanae : Michiyo Kogure Yumiko : Aiko Mimasu ...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1946)

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Toshiko Iizuka and Minosuke Bando in Utamaro and His Five Women Utamaro : Minosuke Bando Okita : Kinuyo Tanaka Seinosuke : Kotaro Band...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

A Story From Chikamatsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

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Kyoko Kagawa and Kazuo Hasegawa in A Story From Chikamatsu Mohei : Kazuo Hasegawa Osan : Kyoko Kagawa Ishun : Eitaro Shindo Sukeemo...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

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When does beauty become a flaw? To put it another way, if beauty is only skin deep, how does an artist present it so that we don't lin...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

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Kinuyo Tanaka in The Life of Oharu Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka) is by turns a lover, a concubine, a courtesan, a servant, a wife, a prostitute,...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)

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It's easy to imagine Kenji Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy remade into a 1930s "women's picture" starring Bette Davis, exce...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1941)

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Chojuro Karawasaki in The 47 Ronin As stately a samurai film as you're ever likely to see, with no action except the initial attac...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

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It's rare to see a film whose title character is the villain -- unless you count monster movies like the many versions of Dracula -- b...