Word: mizoguchi
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...1950s Japan could boast not only a robust film industry but also a vibrant national cinema, with three directors-Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa-who could be counted among the handful of film-making giants. Mizoguchi died in 1956, Ozu in 1963, and no younger director has since achieved nearly their stature. As for Kurosawa, he has been able to realize only three films since 1965-all outside the studio system-and in 1971, frustrated by the industry's intransigence, attempted suicide. His latest project, a retelling of King Lear set in medieval Japan, was recently postponed...
...elements of the Eastern world through Western-style intelligence. Once, when a Westerner looked at Japanese movies-at Kurosawa's kamikaze-type warriors in The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, or Ozu's gentle heroines in Tokyo Story and The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, or Mizoguchi's evocations of Kabuki drama in Ugetsu and Sansho the Bailiff-he, could tell himself, 'This is Japan!' He can't find that kind of false reassurance in the works of Imamura or Oshima...
...function of film studies on a university level, says Petric, is to introduce the student to cinematic artists whom the popular moviegoers ignore: experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Bruce Bailey, or Hollis Frampton, or foreign artists such as Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean-Luc Godard...
Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi) tonight at 8 p.m. with a Chaplin short. Blaise Pascal (Rossellini) with A Change of Spirit, Sunday...
Kurosawa. The festival of great Japanese films continues at the Park Square, the Kenmore remaining immobilised by an interminable run of the Monty Python film. Anyway this weekend features Rashomon and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. Rashomon is set in something like 9th century Kyoto, and examines four people's subjective accounts of a murder. After that Park Square is showing Yojimbo (which Kurowasa made because he was so pissed off that the Americans copied Seven Samurai when they made The Magnificent Seven--so it's a parody). With it is another film starring Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood (a version...