Kenji Mizoguchi

All Movies of Kenji Mizoguchi

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 Year

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  7.8
  Street of Shame
  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 hav...
  Director of the film

   1956

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  Princess Yang Kwei-fei
  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 distan...
  Director of the film

   1955

• 
  7.0
  The Crucified Woman (Uwasa no onna)
  Director of the film

   1954

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  Sansho the Bailiff
  'Sansho Dayu' reaches back to a Japanese folk tale of the 12th century to depict the barbarism of a dark age, when people didn't know how to be human. When a provincial governor's attempts to protect the rights of regional farmers...
  Director of the film

   1954

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  8.0
  The Crucified Lovers
  Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei, the two flee away. While on the run, Osan and Mo...
  Director of the film

   1954

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  8.0
  A Geisha (Gion bayashi)
  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...
  Director of the film

   1953

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  8.3
  Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain
  In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local city, while his brother-in-law Tobei wishes to become a samura
  Director of the film

   1953

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  The Life of Oharu
  It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are discovered, Oharu and her family are obliged to live in exile.
  Director of the film

   1952

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  7.9
  Miss Oyu (Oyû-sama)
  Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convi...
  Director of the film

   1951

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  7.0
  Utamaro and His Five Women
  Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets hi
  Director of the film

   1946

• 
  7.0
  The Loyal 47 Ronin
  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 maste...
  Director of the film

   1941

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  Oyuki, the Virgin
  Director of the film

   1935

• 
  6.7
  The Downfall of Osen
  Sokichi Hata moves to Tokyo hoping to get into medical school, but he doesn't have the means to survive. There, he meets Osen, the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in Sokichi. Kumazawa mistreats...
  Director of the film

   1935