Known for the exquisite beauty of his films and hailed as one of the greatest filmmakers ever by many critics, scholars, and filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) produced 85 films that spanned the ...

As it has been revealed in dribs and drabs over the past decade, the famous twenty-year gap between Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998) was actually a rich period of ...

In some danger of being overlooked in the press of history that reveres Yasujiro Ozu’s rigorous constancy and Akira Kurosawa’s noble pulp, Kenji Mizoguchi is a more difficult master magician to love ...

Already filling in the year with long-awaited films like Terrence Malick’s “Badlands,” and Alex Cox’s cult-classic “Repo Man,” renowned home video distributor The Criterion Collection has consistently ...

Miyamoto Musashi, one of a slew of patriotic films about swordsmen produced in wartime Japan, is the closest thing to a B-movie that survives from the work of the great director Kenji Mizoguchi. In it ...

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 “Ugetsu,” a mystical tale of love, art and war set in 16th Century Japan, may be the most beautiful of all the world’s black-and-white films. Frame by frame, shot by shot, it ...

We don't know how he began - his first three dozen or so films are lost to history - but we know how he ended: as one of Japan's greatest directors, in that elite circle that counts Akira Kurosawa and ...

When director Kenji Mizoguchi died of leukemia in 1956 he was 58 and a leading figure in world cinema, championed by members of the French New Wave, and the recipient of major prizes at the Venice ...