Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1956)

Kenji Mizoguchi

Japanese filmmaker (1898–1956)

Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the…