Sunday, February 12, 2017

Japanese Movie Director (8): Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi (1898 - 1956)

Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the most internationally well-known Japanese movie directors, so well-known that rather detailed information may be acquired through IMDB, Wikipedia and so on. There is little left for me to add.

(Filmography)
The filmography provides the items "Production year", "Japanese title", "English title", "Survival Status" (whether or not negative or positive exists), and DVD/Blu-ray availability. Titles of the movies ranked in Top_10 are displayed in bold font.
(Note) Some of the available DVD/Blu-ray titles are out of stock. Never fail to check subtitles, as well as region codes and format (NTSC or PAL) of the disc and your palyer, before purchasing DVD/Blu-ray discs.

1923 Ai ni yomigaeru hi (The Resurrection of Love)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1923 Kokyo (Hometown/Native Country)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1923 Seishun no yumeji (Dream of Youth/The Dream Path of Youth)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1923 Joen no chimata (City of Desire/Harbour of Desire)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1923 Haizan no uta wa kanashi (Failure's Song Is Sad/The Song of Failure)    
     Survival Status: Lost   
1923 813 (The Adventures of Arsene Lupin)
     Survival Status: Lost
1923 Kiri no minato (Foggy Harbour/Harbour in the Fog)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1923 Haikyo no naka (Among the Ruins/In the Ruins)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1923 Yoru (The Night)
     Survival Status: Lost
1923 Chi to rei (Blood and Soul)
     Survival Status: Lost
1923 Toge no uta (The Song of the Mountain Pass)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1924 Kanashiki hakuchi (Song of the Sad Idiot/The Sad Idiot)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1924 Akatsuki no shi (Death at Dawn)            
     Survival Status: Lost
1924 Gendai no joô (The Queen of Modern Times)
     Survival Status: Lost
1924 Josei wa tsuyoshi (Strong Is the Female/Women Are Strong)
     Survival Status: Lost
1924 Jinkyo (This Dusty World)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1924 Shichimencho no yukue (The Trace of a Turkey/Turkeys in a Row/Where Turkey Has Gone)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1924 Samidare zoshi (A Chronicle of the May Rain)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1924 Kanraku no onna (A Woman of Pleasure)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1924 Kyokubadan no joô (Queen of the Circus)
     Survival Status: Lost
1925 Uchen-Puchan/Musen fusen (No Money, No Fight)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1925 Gakuso wo idete (Out of College)
     Survival Status: Lost
1925 Daichi wa hohoemu (The Earth Smiles: Part 1/The Smiling Earth)       
     Survival Status: Lost
1925 Shirayuri wa nageku (The White Lily Laments)       
     Survival Status: Lost
1925 Akai yuhi ni terasarete (Shining in the Red Sunset/Under the Crimson Sunset)
     Survival Status: Lost
1925 Furusato no uta (The Song of Home)
     Survival Status: Exist            
1925 Gaijo no suketchi (Street Scenes/Street Sketches)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1925 Ningen (The Human Being/The Man)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1925 Nogi taisho to Kumasan (General Nogi and Kumasan)   
     Survival Status: Lost
1926 Dôka-ô (The Copper Coin King)
     Survival Status: Lost
1926 Kaminingyo haru no sasayaki (A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring)
     Survival Status: Lost
1926 Shin onoga tsumi (My Fault)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1926 Kyoren no onna shishô (The Love-Mad Tutoress/The Passion of a Woman Teacher)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1926 Kaikoku danji (Children of the Sea/The Boy from the Navy/The Boy of the Sea)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1926 Kane (Money)
     Survival Status: Lost
1927 Kôon (The Imperial Grace)       
     Survival Status: Lost
1927 Jihi shinchô (The Cuckoo)
     Survival Status: Lost
1928 Hito no issyô: ningen banji kane no maki (A Man's Life: Money is Almighty)
     Survival Status: Lost
1928 Hito no issyô: ukiyo ha tsuraine no maki (A Man's Life: The World is Full of Severeness)
     Survival Status: Lost
1928 Hito no issyô: kuma to tora saikai no maki (A Man's Life : Reunion of Tora and Kuma )
     Survival Status: Lost
1928 Musume kawaiya (My Lovely Daughter)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1929 Nihon bashi (The Nihon Bridge)    
     Survival Status: Lost
1929 Asahi wa kagayaku (The Morning Sun Shines)
     Survival Status: Exist (abridged version: 1/4 in length of the original version)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability:            
1929 Tôkyô kôshin-kyoku (Tokyo March)
     Survival Status: Exist (abridged version: 1/5 in length of the original version)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese
1929 Tokai kokyogaku (Metropolitan Symphony)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1930 Furusato (Home Town/Home Village)
     Survival Status: Exist (incomplete version, shorter than the original by approx. 30%)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability:
1930 Tôjin Okichi (Mistress of a Foreigner)
     Survival Status: Lost (a fragment of few minutes survives)   
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese (coupled with "Orizuru Osen")
1931 Shikamo karera wa yuku

      (And Yet They Go/Despite All They Advance/Nevertheless, They Go On)
     Survival Status: Lost
1932 Toki no ujigami (Man of the Moment)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1932 Manmo kenkoku no reimei (Dawn in Manchuria)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1933 Taki no shiraito
    (Cascading White Threads/The Water Magician/White Threads of the Waterfall)
     Survival Status: Exist (Incomplete version shorter than the original by approx. 14%)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese
1933 Gion matsuri (Gion Festival)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1934 Jinpu-ren (The Jinpu Group/The Kamikaze Group/The Shimpu Group)
     Survival Status: Lost
1934 Aizô tôge (The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate/The Pass of Love and Hate)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1935 Orizuru Osen (The Downfall/The Downfall of Osen/The Paper Cranes of Osen)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, French
1935 Maria no Oyuki (Oyuki, the Madonna/Oyuki, the Virgin)
     Survival Status: Lost
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: French    
1935 Gubijinso (Poppies/Poppy)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: French    
1936 Naniwa ereji (Naniwa Elegy/Osaka Elegy/Woman of Osaka)
     Survival Status: Exist (incomplete version shorter than the original by approx. 20%)
     DVD availability: Japanese,USA,UK,and more
1936 Gion no shimai (Sisters of the Gion)
     Survival Status: Exist (incomplete version shorter than the original by approx. 26%)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,USA,UK,and more    
1937 Aien kyô (The Straits of Love and Hate)
     Survival Status: Exist (incomplete version shorter than the original by approx. 16%)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese
1938 Roei no uta (The Song of the Camp)
     Survival Status: Lost       
1938 Aa kokyô / Aa furusato (Ah, My Home Town)
     Survival Status: Lost
1939 Zangiku monogatari (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,USA,UK,and more
1940 Naniwa onna (The Woman of Osaka)
     Survival Status: Lost
1941 Geido ichidai otoko (The Life of an Actor)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1941+1942 Genroku chushingura (47 Samurai/Chushingura/The 47 Ronin/The Loyal 47 Ronin)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,French    
1944 Danjuro sandai (Three Danjuros/Three Generations of Danjuro)
     Survival Status: Lost   
1944 Miyamoto Musashi (The Swordsman)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: None
1945 Meitô bijomaru
      (The Famous Sword/The Famous Sword Bijomaru/The Noted Sword/The Sword)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,French
1945 Hisshôka (Victory Song)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese
1946 Josei no shôri (The Victory of Women/Women's Victory)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: None   
1946 Utamaro wo meguru gonin no onna
       (Five Women Around Utamaro/Utamaro and His Five Women)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, UK, French
1947 Joyu Sumako no koi (The Love of Sumako the Actress)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, French
1948 Yoru no onnatachi (Women of the Night)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,USA,French    
1949 Waga koi wa moenu (Flame of My Love/My Love Burns/My Love Has Been Burning)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese
1950 Yuki fujin ezu (A Picture of Madame Yuki/Portrait of Madame Yuki)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, Italian    
1951 Oyu-sama (Lady Oyu/Miss Oyu)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,UK,French    
1951 Musashino fujin (Lady Musashino/The Lady of Musashino)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,UK,Italian    
1952 Saikaku ichidai onna (Diary of Oharu/The Life of Oharu)
     Survival Status: Exist (incomplete version shorter than the original by approx. 9%)
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, USA, UK, and more    
1953 Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Ugetsu/Ugetsu)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, USA, UK, and more
1953 Gion bayashi (A Geisha)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, USA, UK, and more
1954 Sanshô dayû (Legend of Bailiff Sansho/Sansho the Bailiff)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, USA, UK, and more
1954 Uwasa no onna (The Crucified Woman/The Woman in the Rumor/The Woman of Rumour)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, UK    
1954 Chikamatsu monogatari (A Story from Chikamatsu/The Crucified Lovers)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, UK, French    
1955 Yôkihi (Empress Yank Kwei Fei/Princess Yang Kwei-fei)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese,UK,French    
1955 Shin heike monogatari (Legend of the Taira Clan/New Tales of the Taira Clan)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability: Japanese, French    
1956 Akasen chitai (Street of Shame)
     Survival Status: Exist
     DVD/Blu-ray availability:  Japanese, USA, UK, and more


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