"This final view of Ayako is the most powerful image in the film, and is often cited as one of the most absorbing images in Mizoguchi's oeuvre. The image of Ayako staring into the camera and walking off, into the unknown, leaves the final outcome of the film open to viewer interpretation. However, one cannot resist the thought that her future will ultimately be bleak." Jason Dow "Mizoguchi has been dubbed Japan's first "feminist" director -- the women in his films are central, he sculpts their characters with deep empathy, and he allows them a full range of emotions which give them the breadth of complex humanity, not the one-sidedness of mere martyrs or objects of love. Additionally, he directs his leading actresses, especially Yamada Isuzu, stellar here as the truly unfortunate Ayako, to transcendent performances." Michael Price

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La calle de la vergüenza narra la historia de una serie de prostitutas que trabajan en un burdel del barrio rojo de Tokio en la época en la que el Parlamento Japonés está debatiendo una ley que puede prohibir la prostitución. Última de las películas del director japonés Kenji Mizoguchi, que había alcanzado un gran reconocimiento en Occidente, fundamentalmente por el éxito que había obtenido en el Festival de Venecia con películas anteriores, como los Cuentos de la luna pálida, la Vida de O-Haru, mujer galante y El intendente Sansho. Título La calle de la vergüenza Ficha técnica Dirección:Kenji Mizoguchi Producción:Masaichi Nagata Guión:Masashige Narusawa Música:Toshirô Mayuzumi Fotografía:Kazuo Miyagawa Reparto Machiko Kyô Aiko Mimasu Ayako Wakao Michiyo Kogure Kumeko Urabe Yasuko Kawakami Hiroko Machida Datos y cifras País:Japón Año:1956 Género:Drama Duración:87 minutos Masaichi Nagata educacion: Etnilumidad SA www.etnilumidad.com etnilumidadinternacional@gmail.com (506)2510-2323/8818-0475 Siguenos en Twitter twitter.com Siguenos en Facebook www.facebook.com

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Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi Produced by Masaichi Nagata Written by Yoshitaka Yoda Matsutarō Kawaguchi Chikamatsu Monzaemon (story) Starring Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Music by Fumio Hayasaka Tamezō Mochizuki Cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa Editing by Kanji Sugawara Distributed by Daiei Release date(s) Japan November 23, 1954 -- No copyright infringement intended. For entertainment purposes only.

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A film noir directed by Kenji Mizoguchi in Japan in 1936. "Osaka Elegy" is just one of numerous film noirs made in Asia in the 1930s.

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Based on an ancient legend, as recounted by celebrated author Mori Ogai (in his short story of the same name, written in 1915), and adapted by Japanese director Mizoguchi Kenji, Sansho Dayu is both distinctively Japanese and as deeply affecting as a Greek tragedy. Described in its opening title as "one of the oldest and most tragic in Japan's history", Mizoguchi depicts an unforgettably sad story of social injustice, family love, personal sacrifice, and fateful tragedy. Set in Heian era (11th century) Japan, it follows an aristocratic woman, Tamaki (played by Tanaka Kinuyo, who also stars in Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari), and her two children, Zushio (Hanayagi Yoshiaki) and Anju (Kagawa Kyoko), who are separated by feudal tyranny from Tamaki's husband. When the children are kidnapped and sold into slavery to the eponymous "Sansho" (Shindo Eitaro), the lives of each of the family members follow very different paths -- each course uniquely, and insufferably, tragic. Famed for its period reconstructions and powerful imagery, often through the director's trademark long takes, Sansho Dayu is one of the most critically revered of all of Mizoguchi's films, and a classic of world cinema, often cropping up in lists of the greatest films ever made. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present -- together with the lesser known Mizoguchi feature film Gion Bayashi, produced the year before Sansho Dayu, and presented here on DVD in the UK for the very first time -- this landmark <b>...</b>

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Crisântemos Tardios (Zangiku monogatari, 1939) • Direção: Kenji Mizoguchi • Roteiro: Matsutarô Kawaguchi (roteiro), Shôfû Muramatsu (romance), Yoshikata Yoda (roteiro) • Gênero: Drama • Origem: Japão • Duração: 142 minutos • Tipo: Longa-metragem Sinopse: O filho adotivo de um ator renomado descobre que só é elogiado nos palcos e poupado das críticas negativas por ser o herdeiro do seu pai, e que seus colegas o menosprezam pelas costas. Somente uma empregada da familia é honesta com ele e tem coragem de lhe dizer a verdade, ainda assim incentivando-o para que continue na profissão. Elenco • Shôtarô Hanayagi Kikunosuke Onoue • Kôkichi Takada Fukusuke Nakamura • Gonjurô Kawarazaki Kikugoro Onoue • Kakuko Mori Otoku • Tokusaburo Arashi Shikan Nakamura • Yôko Umemura Osata

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Mizoguchi's debut colour feature follows on from his sensational run of successes in the early 1950s - and in terms of narrative and character development, its considerably less polished than those prior masterworks. Still, if he was nervous about this first venture into the polychromatic then he needn't have worried - Yôkihi boasts a number of sequences that are worthy of standing alongside the best that the director has to offer. This scene, taking place amongst plum blossoms in an artificial wonderland, marries Mizoguchi's beguiling lyricism with delicately opaque characterisations to forge an indelible portrait of loneliness. reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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La Vie d'O'Haru femme galante de Kenji Mizoguchi (1952).

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This scene, in which the film's two lovers meet for the first time on screen, is a supreme example of Mizoguchi's artistry. An uninterrupted, five-minute tracking shot gracefully glides alongside the duo as they take an impromptu stroll into the night. The director outright refuses to fracture the lucidity of the scene - hence, he avoids cuts and records in long shot, whilst masterfully using blocking to express what cannot be registered in close-up; the ongoing saga of who walks before whom (and in what proximity) substituting for a courting ritual, not to mention a wry critique of the power dynamics within the blossoming relationship. Otoku, despite the wounds that she inflicts upon Kiku's masculinity with her necessary confession, will eventually recede to a position firmly within the latter's shadow - a position in which she'll stay (not necessarily against her will) for the remainder of the film. Extended thoughts: reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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Adaptation théâtrale du film de Kenji MIZOGUCHI par la Compagnie de Théâtre de de Femmes Franco-Japonais,, Mise en scène de Sayori OKADA, Adaptation Vanina LUCIANI.

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In this fascinating sequence, Mizoguchi cogently scrutinises the changing dynamics of postwar Japan. Alluding to his nation's increasing Westernisation (note the music that opens the clip, and the reference to a sexualised Hollywood icon that closes it), the director unravels the traditional reverence of the family unit - thereby allowing a daughter to rebel against, and then outright decry her father with a scintillating burst of female solidarity. An old and haggard patriarchy is little match for such emotionally-liberated women - and yet Mizoguchi is careful to recognise the limitations of her freedom: the central reunion being intercut by a scene that reinforces Mickey's possession by another, equally irrelevant patriarch. Our heroine may have emancipated herself from one oppressive system, but she remains firmly (and, the director appears to suggest, perhaps even wilfully) entrenched within another. There remains a whole lot more rebuilding work to be done in Mizoguchi's conception of the new Japan. reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Children of Hiroshima (Japanese: 原爆の子, Japanese: Genbaku no ko) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Cast Nobuko Otowa - Takako Ishikawa Osamu Takizawa - Iwakichi Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa Tsuneko Yamanaka Shinya Ofuji Takashi Itō Chikako Hosokawa - Setsu, Takako's mother Masao Shimizu - Toshiaki, Takako's father Yuriko Hanabusa - Oine Tanie Kitabayashi - Otoyo Tsutomu Shimomoto - Natsue's husband Eijirô Tono Taiji Tonoyama - Owner of a ship Jukichi Uno - Koji (scenes deleted) Kaneto Shindō (新藤 兼人 Shindō Kaneto?, born April 28, 1912), Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Hiroshima, Shindō first joined the film developing lab of Shinkō Kinema in 1934. He later moved to the art department and began writing scripts on his own. He worked with Kenji Mizoguchi on several films, most notably being in charge of the sets for The 47 Ronin. He made his debut as a screenwriter with the film Nanshin josei in 1940. Moving to Shōchiku, he began writing scripts for Kōzaburō Yoshimura, scoring a critical hit with A Ball at the Anjo House in 1947. Shindō and Yoshimura left Shōchiku in 1950 to form the independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyōkai. In 1951, he made his debut as a director with Aisai monogatari. Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb, such as Children of Hiroshima, Lucky Dragon No. 5, and <b>...</b>

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Mizoguchi's final film (yet another masterpiece) examines the role of prostitution in contemporary Japan with both breadth and depth. The director uses the aging Yumeko's forays outside of the stifling "akasen" to explore the viability of a tainted woman's prospects in wider society, as well as to comment upon the cruel reality that is the passing of time. In this affecting sequence, Yumeko's entire life is rendered obsolete by the insensitivity of youth; her investments in her son's future backfiring spectacularly as he feigns moral superiority in order to sever their crucial bond. Although Mizoguchi spends much of the film arguing the necessity of an Anti-Prostitution Bill, here he pauses to consider its negative implications: what will become of women like Yumeko in the new Japan? The indelible image of a discarded mother unable to give chase after her uncaring son (and therefore, her dreams and her future) demands a considerate response to the dilemma. reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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***SPOILER ALERT*** Do not watch this video if you wish to avoid crucial plot details being disclosed. Street of Shame's searing finale, in which the national cycle of female exploitation ruthlessly consumes its next victim. The radical feminism of the director's earlier features (Sisters of the Gion, Osaka Elegy) strangulates his efforts here, denying his protagonists the spiritual release that was so available in the acclaimed jidaigekis that immediately preceded them, and insisting upon a tangible resolution to their respective (and collective) plights. The very last image, in which Mizoguchi assumes the male gaze and implants himself into the drama in a bid to win his own redemption (the director was a well known frequenter of red light districts) turned out to be the final shot of his career - a career that concluded by passionately reasserting its commitment to women with all guns blazing. reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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Even narratives that were outright flawed couldn't prevent Mizoguchi from crafting moments of awe-inspiring wonder. Yôkihi, a film preoccupied with the restrictions faced by its characters, achieves temporary bliss with a sequence that's concerned entirely with the notion of movement. Under artificial stars, our prospective lovers escape into the night; the memory of their palatial abode's stultifying decorum swiftly extinguished by the jubilance in the outside world. Following a trivial process of self-discovery and a brief flirtation with alcohol, the pair enact one of the most moving expressions of mutual desire in screen history. Kwei-fei dances, the Emperor plays guitar, and as their respective performances coalesce somewhere within a stratosphere of ecstasy, the viewer is left with a definitive understanding of freedom and its manifold virtues. reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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***SPOILER ALERT*** Do not watch this video if you wish to avoid crucial plot details being disclosed. Self-sacrifice, particularly female self-sacrifice, is a recurrent theme in Mizoguchi's oeuvre. His explorations of abnegation and servitude within an unyielding patriarchy have produced a vast array of memorable and sympathetic heroines, and Sansho the Bailiff's Anju - with her extraordinary benevolence - belongs firmly within this lineage. Following her father's early demise, it is she who serves as the film's most significant proponent of "mercy", and her role as a weaver in the eponymous antagonist's barbarous labour camp maintains a decidedly figurative purpose: her life's goal is to unify the remnants of her broken family. Her suicide scene, which allows her brother to escape their virtual prison, is filmed with the utmost respect by a director who mourns the supposed necessity of the act whilst venerating the character's ascendence into a spiritual realm (note the explicit link that's drawn between Anju's death and the Buddhist iconography that will come to safeguard her brother). reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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***SPOILER ALERT*** Do not watch this video if you wish to avoid crucial plot details being disclosed. Mizoguchi's bittersweet coda undercuts a purportedly triumphant procession with a burgeoning sense of guilt and grief. The forward momentum of this final procession is ruthless, forcing the weak-willed Kiku onward to his preordained destiny as superstar thespian. Meanwhile, the woman that enabled his success pitifully surrenders to her own fate in a murky corner of the universe (archaic social customs prevent her from sharing her lover's glory). The director conceives Otoku's sacrifice as an act of transcendence, an ascent into immortal serenity - yet his ever-critical eye recognises the worthlessness of her deed. The film's unbearable heartache derives its strength from the absurdity of her devotion to a man who didn't love her enough until it was too late, not to mention her inability to look beyond the total subservience that's ingrained into both her gender and her class. And what lessons will have been learnt from this, her final abnegation? Kiku's mechanised bows during this agonising conclusion suggest that, despite the trauma, his own capacity to think outside the social constraints imposed upon him will remain forever curtailed. The triumph, it seems, belongs wholly to the tragedy. Extended thoughts: reehanmiah.wordpress.com

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