Daily Briefing. A Pulitzer, "Pizza" and Cannes Shorts
David HudsonAlso: Brad Stevens on Mizoguchi, a new viral video for Prometheus and more.
Kenji Mizoguchi
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Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
David HudsonThe festival features a retrospective of work by actress Kyoko Kagawa, now 79.
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Image of the day. The Great Japanese Directors
Daniel KasmanIn one photo, in 1936: Naruse, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Shimizu, Uchida, Yamanaka, Gosho, Kinugasa and more!
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Movie Posters of the Week: 5 Japanese Divas
Adrian CurryStarting today, and for most of April, Film Forum in New York will be honoring five of Japan’s greatest actresses in a portmanteau retrospective entitled 5 Japanese Divas. The divas in question are Setsuko
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Five Japanese Divas
David HudsonNick Pinkerton in the Voice on Five Japanese Divas, running from tomorrow through April 21: "Rarefied Ozu, bold Kurosawa, saturnine Naruse, magisterial Mizoguchi. The Great Men are here, and then some
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Electric Sheep, Lists and DVDs
David Hudson"Bitterness" is the theme of Electric Sheep's new issue, featuring Nicola Woodham on Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's neo-giallo Amer and John Bleasdale on Dario Argento's straight-up
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Cuba in LA, Mizoguchi in London + a bit more
David Hudson"Released in that mythical year of 1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment is, like its main character, both part of and apart from its time," writes Michael Joshua Rowin in the LA
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Mizoguchi on DVD IV: Mizoguchi Recap
David Phelps“We live in a fishbowl, and people love to talk.”– Sisters of the Gion Famously, Mizoguchi’s camera is a spy: peeking in behind bars and curtains and doorways (framing shots diagrammatically on left or
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Mizoguchi on DVD III: "Women of the Night" (Mizoguchi, 1948)
David PhelpsPost-war, movies take notice—not for the first time, or last, but with the conviction that bearing witness can be an assault—of crowds and the weight of history. The two are intertwined, everyday concerns
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Now on DVD: "Oyu-sama" (Mizoguchi, 1951)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Tanaka Kinuyo as the eponymous character in Mizoguchi's Oyu-sama. Oyu-sama, Kenji Mizoguchi's 1951 film, comes between such masterpieces as The Life of Oharu (1952) and The Love of Sumako the