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Kenji Mizoguchi movies in order

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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.

Kenji Mizoguchi movies in order (49)

  1. Blood and Soul (1923)
  2. Foggy Harbour (1923)
  3. The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1923)
  4. The Day Love Came Back (1923)
  5. The Homeland (1923)
  6. Chronicle of May Rain (1924)
  7. Smiling Earth (1925)
  8. Song of Home (1925)
  9. A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1926)
  10. The Passion of a Woman Teacher (1926)
  11. Jihishincho (1927)
  12. Metropolitan Symphony (1929)
  13. Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown (1930)
  14. And Yet They Go On (1931)
  15. The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia (1932)
  16. The Feast of Gion (1933)
  17. The Water Magician (1933)
  18. The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate (1934)
  19. Oyuki the Virgin (1935)
  20. Poppy (1935)
  21. The Downfall of Osen (1935)
  22. Osaka Elegy (1936)
  23. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
  24. The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
  25. Ah, My Hometown (1938)
  26. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
  27. Osaka Woman (1940)
  28. A Man of the Arts (1941)
  29. The 47 Ronin (1941)
  30. Miyamoto Musashi (1944)
  31. The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
  32. Victory Song (1945)
  33. Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
  34. Victory of Women (1946)
  35. The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947)
  36. Women of the Night (1948)
  37. Flame of My Love (1949)
  38. Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
  39. Miss Oyu (1951)
  40. The Lady of Musashino (1951)
  41. The Life of Oharu (1952)
  42. A Geisha (1953)
  43. Ugetsu (1953)
  44. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)
  45. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  46. The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
  47. Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
  48. Taira Clan Saga (1955)
  49. Street of Shame (1956)

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Kenji Mizoguchi has 49 movies on Rex, listed in order above.