Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi was born on May 16, 1898 in Japan. Kenji Mizoguchi's big-screen debut came with The Passion of a Woman Teacher directed by Kenji Mizoguchi in 1926. Kenji Mizoguchi is known for Musashino fujin directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka stars as Michiko Akiyama and Yukiko Todoroki as Tomiko Ono. Kenji Mizoguchi has got 11 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Kenji Mizoguchi achieved is Cahiers du Cinéma. The upcoming new movie Kenji Mizoguchi plays is The Downfall of Osen which will be released on May 20, 1981.

Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known outside of Japan because they were especially produced for Venice (e.g. La vie d'O'Haru femme galante (1952) or 0047445. He only filmed two productions in color: L'impératrice Yang Kwei-Fei (1955) and Le héros sacrilège (1955).