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Kenji Mizoguchi

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Born May 16, 1898 · Died Aug 24, 1956 (aged 58) · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
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🤝 Has directed Kumeko Urabe across 9 films.

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.

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