This fall, campus movie fans have the rare opportunity to get an in-depth look at one of the most revered artists in the history of film. On Wednesday nights through December 1, Doc Films is ...

Lecture/Screening class (3 hours) Lecture with Alan Tansman, Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Mizoguchi considered The Life of Oharu his masterpiece, and ...

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 & ...

A contemplative and ambiguous account of a love triangle, based on a story by Junichiro Tanizaki and translated through Mizoguchi’s use of the long, mobile shot infused with emotion. Kinuyo Tanaka ...

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The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate, Utamaro expresses his love for five women through his paintings. The director ...

But it may have been this very tangle of warring instincts and quirks, and his absolute Japanese sensibility, that made Mizoguchi‘s mid-century films towering achievements whose beauty and emotions ...