1956-08-24
1898-05-16128 years, 5 months, and 23 days old
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Place of birth:
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Adult:
No
Gender:
Male
Biography
Kenji Mizoguchi (16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène. His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they confront human suffering.
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Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos | Self (archive footage) | 4 | 2021-07-15 | 0.3341 | ||
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director | Self | 7.2 | 1975-05-24 | 0.7639 |
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