Highest rated movie: Street of Shame (1956)
Lowest rated movie: Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi? Cinafilm has a total of 56 reviews across 4 movies directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 75%.
Street of Shame is Kenji Mizoguchi's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 23 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kenji Mizoguchi is Utamaro and His Five Women, with a score of 73% based on 9 reviews.
Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène. "His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they confront human suffering.
Kenji Mizoguchi has directed films starring Eitarō Shindō, Kinuyo Tanaka, Taizō Fukami and Daisuke Katō.
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