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FILM DIRECTOR

Kenji Mizoguchi

1898 - 1956

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Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二, Mizoguchi Kenji, 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Mizoguchi has received more than 653,019 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Kenji Mizoguchi is the 94th most popular film director (up from 103rd in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Japan and the 6th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Kenji Mizoguchi is most famous for his films, which are known for their long takes and poetic imagery.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kenji Mizoguchi ranks 94 out of 1,581. Before him are René Clair, Christopher Nolan, Fred Zinnemann, Andrzej Żuławski, Wolfgang Petersen, and Tony Scott. After him are George A. Romero, William Hanna, Howard Hawks, Walter Hill, Peter Brook, and Terrence Malick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Kenji Mizoguchi ranks 32. Before him are Rudolf Dassler, Karl Hermann Frank, René Clair, Willy Messerschmitt, Jeanne Hébuterne, and Karl Ziegler. After him are Julius Evola, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Curzio Malaparte, Peng Dehuai, Fritz Zwicky, and Aloysius Stepinac. Among people deceased in 1956, Kenji Mizoguchi ranks 17. Before him are Emil Nolde, Lucien Febvre, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, A. A. Milne, Alexander Rodchenko, and Alfred Kinsey. After him are Konstantin Päts, Bela Lugosi, Risto Ryti, H. L. Mencken, Émile Borel, and Josef Hoffmann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi ranks 78 out of 6,048. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Shirō Ishii (1892), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837). After him are Nichiren (1222), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), and Dōgen (1200).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi ranks 6. Before him are Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Isao Takahata (1935), and Yasujirō Ozu (1903). After him are Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Ishirō Honda (1911).

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Filmography

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