Tag: Kenji Mizoguchi
Posted on March 11, 2018 |
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Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers / The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (1954)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa, Yôko Minamida
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Posted on December 19, 2013 |
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Akasen chitai / Street of Shame (1956)
Drama
Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is married, her husband unemployed; they have a young child. Yumeko, a widow, uses her earnings to raise and support her son, who's now old enough to work and care for her. The aging Yorie has a man who wants to marry her. Yasumi saves money diligently to pay her debt and get out; she also has a suitor who wants to marry her, but she has other plans for him. Mickey seems the most devil-may-care, until her father comes from Kobe to bring her news of her family and ask her to come home.
Starring: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Aiko Mimasu, Kenji Sugawara, Yasuko Kawakami
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Posted on December 15, 2013 |
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Yôkihi / Princess Yang Kwei-fei / Empress Yank Kwei Fei (1955)
Drama | History | Romance
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against all the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Starring: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Sugimura
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Eitarô Ozawa, Eitarô Shindô, Haruko Sugimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Posted on December 8, 2013 |
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Uwasa no onna / The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Drama | Romance
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession. Hatsuko is having a discrete affair with the young Dr. Matoba, who looks after the geisha girls. The doctor is attracted to Yukiko, who initially despises him and everything connected with the geisha house. However Yukiko gradually changes her views.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Eitarô Shindô, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Posted on September 10, 2013 |
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The 47 Ronin / 47 Samurai / Genroku Chûshingura (1941)
Action | Drama | History
Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai retinue are dispersed as masterless ronin. The leader of the samurai, Oichi, plots with a loyal band of ronin to seek revenge for their master's dishonor.
Starring: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Haranosuke Bando, Chôemon Bandô, Enji Ichikawa
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Chôemon Bandô, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Enji Ichikawa, Haranosuke Bando, Kenji Mizoguchi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi
Posted on July 14, 2013 |
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The Life of Oharu / Saikaku ichidai onna (1952)
Drama
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, thus Oharu and her family were exiled. From there on, Oharu lived the rest of her life filled with sorrow and humiliation.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Ichirô Sugai, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshirô Mifune, Tsukie Matsuura
Posted on March 30, 2013 |
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Gion bayashi / A Geisha (1953)
Drama
In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year of training they have to find a large sum of money before Eiko can debut. Miyoharu borrows the money from the tea-house owner, Okimi, who in turn obtains the money from the businessman Kusuda. Kusuda fancies Eiko himself and wants to give Miyoharu to Kanzaki in order to close a large business deal. However both geishas have minds of their own and, going against tradition, want to be able to say no to clients.
Starring: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Legend of Bailiff Sansho / Sansho the Bailiff / Sanshô dayû (1954)
Drama
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi's dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tags: Akitake Kôno, Eitarô Shindô, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Masao Shimizu, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Posted on June 1, 2012 |
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Ugetsu monogatari / Ugetsu (1953)
Drama | Thriller
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river…
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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