MIZOGUCHI REVERED ♥

Mizoguchi, one of 6 directors with 5 films rated 8.8 or more on Mubi (as of February 2025). If only they were screened on Mubi!

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...