Highest rated as cast or director
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.
Directed 42
1950s
- 1956
Street of Shame
Director
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Director
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
- 1950
1940s
- 1949
Flame of My Love
Director
- 1948
Women of the Night
Director
- 1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Director
- 1946
Utamaro and His Five Women
Director
Victory of Women
Director
- 1945
Victory Song
Director
The Famous Sword Bijomaru
Director
- 1944
Miyamoto Musashi
Director
- 1941
A Man of the Arts
Director
- 1940
Osaka Woman
Director
1930s
- 1939
- 1937
- 1936
Osaka Elegy
Director
- 1935
Poppy
Director
Miss Okichi
Co-Director
Oyuki the Virgin
Director
The Downfall of Osen
Director
- 1934
The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate
Director
- 1933
The Feast of Gion
Director
The Water Magician
Director
- 1931
And Yet They Go On
Director
1920s
- 1929
Tokyo March
Director
The Morning Sun Shines
Director
Metropolitan Symphony
Director
- 1926
The Passion of a Woman Teacher
Director
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
Director
- 1925
Smiling Earth
Director
- 1923
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Director
Wrote 9
1950s
- 1957
An Osaka Story
Story
- 1956
Sisters of Gion
Original Story
- 1952
1940s
- 1940
Osaka Woman
Writer
1930s
- 1937
- 1936
Osaka Elegy
Story
- 1933
The Feast of Gion
Writer
1920s
- 1923
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Screenplay
Other crew 1
1940s
- 1940
晴小袖
Compositor
Produced 1
1950s
- 1952
Appearances2
2020s
- 2021
Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos
Self (archive footage)
1970s
- 1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self