Talk:Kenji Mizoguchi

Move

This should be moved to "Kenji Mizoguchi", as that gains 10x as many google hits as "Mizoguchi Kenji" does. WhisperToMe 06:25, 18 July 2004 (UTC)

More information

How did he die for example? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfiedor (talk • contribs) 04:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Mizoguchi's color films

I'm not yet capable of making such a complicated edit -- but Mizoguchi made THREE color films, not TWO!

The third (not mentioned) is STREET OF SHAME, his last film. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lsaul (talk • contribs) 15:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia says it is black and white. Street of Shame. Is it wrong? JoshuSasori (talk) 05:25, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Kimaru

This is THE most important aspect of his films, his use of kimaru, and it needs to be included in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arturobandini (talk • contribs) 02:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Themes uncited

I removed the uncited themes section. Using Wikiblame, this was in the initial edit by User:Mandel who is no longer active since 2009. Would be great if someone could do something better than just deleting it, but it is uncited opinion. JoshuSasori (talk) 05:24, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: JPN 351 The Japanese Experience of the Twentieth Century

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Works Cited

Under "International appreciation", we read:

‘On 24 August 1956, Japan's greatest film-maker died in Kyoto. And one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kenji Mizoguchi was the equal of a Murnau or a Rossellini... If poetry appears at every second, in every shot that Mizoguchi makes, it is because, as with Murnau, it is the instinctive reflection of the inventive nobility of its author’. Jean-Luc Godard, Arts, 5 February 1958.

‘There is no doubt that Kenji Mizoguchi, who died three years ago, was his country's greatest filmmaker. He knew how to discipline for his own use an art born in other climes and from which his compatriots had not always made the most of. And yet there is no slavish desire on his part to copy the West. His conception of setting, acting, rhythm, composition, time and space is entirely national. But he touches us in the same way as Murnau, Ophüls or Rossellini’. Éric Rohmer, Arts, 25 September 1959.

‘Comparisons are as inevitable as they are unfashionable: Mizoguchi is the Shakespeare of cinema, its Bach or Beethoven, its Rembrandt, Titian or Picasso’, James Quandt, Mizoguchi the Master, (retrospective of Mizoguchi centenary films), Cinematheque Ontario and The Japan Foundation, 1996.

These are great quotes, but the link for Rohmer goes to a poster on the website CinéLounge. Can we get a link to Rohmer's original article from Arts? What about Godard? And do we need separate subheadings for "International recognition" and "International appreciation"? Mizoguchi deserved better. Charlie Faust (talk) 16:48, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

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