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MIZOGUCHI REVERED ♥

by Kenji
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Mizoguchi, one of 5 directors with 5 films rated 8.8 or more on Mubi (as of April 2023)

AN INTRO TO MIZOGUCHI

Mizoguchi Kenji was born in Tokyo in 1898, the middle child in a family of modest means. The abrupt ending of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese war, dashing his father’s attempts to sell raincoats to the army, precipitated a desperate financial crisis which forced his older sister Suzu to be given up for adoption then sold to a geisha house. Though she was fortunately “rescued” and later married by a wealthy patron, the event, along with the death when he was 17 of the mother he idolised, had a huge impact...


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