DIRECTORS ROUND MIZOGUCHI

Click on Read More. Above is an image from Godard’s film Made in U.S.A, with on the left the character named Mizoguchi. There are Mizoguchi references in some other films by Godard.

This is a list of directors, with some representative films, who’ve either influenced or been admired by Mizoguchi, or else been his admirers, influenced by him in turn. And in the middle, the films by Mizoguchi himself that are on this site. Included here is An Osaka Story, starring beloved Kagawa Kyoko, for which Mizoguchi started on a script and intended to direct before he died.

The great man respected Ozu, Ford and Wyler (a fellow...