Tag Archives: Kenji Mizoguchi

Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Read More »

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. Read More »

Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women’s daily dramas play out. Read More »

A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Read More »

In the post-war, the sixteen year-old teenager Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion Read More »

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Read More »

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. Read More »

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. Read More »

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Read More »

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. Read More »

A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokio to work and form a family there, but the parents of him want his son to regent their hotel. Read More »

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Read More »

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Read More »

In Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised for his acting only because he is his father’s heir Read More »