Kenji Mizoguchi 1 pictures

Director, Writer, Actor
Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known outside of Japan because they were especially ...

Born: May 16, 1898
Star sign: Taurus
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Known for: Ugetsu (1953), The Life of Oharu (1952), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Sisters of the Gion (1936)
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Kenji Mizoguchi was the greatest Japanese filmmaker who made social realistic films for the working class women throughout his career. And his most successful masterpiece is Ugetsu (1953).