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Top 18 Kenji Mizoguchi Films & Series Streaming in the UK
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…
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Sansho the Bailiff(1954)
8.4124mIn mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile.
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The Life of Oharu(1952)
8.1133mA fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life.
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Ugetsu(1953)
8.196mIn the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi,…
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Chikamatsu Monogatari(1954)
8.0102mTo save her brother and the ancestral house from the heavy burden of an unfulfilled debt, Osan--the noble wife of the parsimonious but…
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Street of Shame(1956)
7.886mFive prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district.
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum(1939)
7.8148mIn Tokyo in 1888, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adoptive son of an important actor, discovers that he is praised for his acting only because he is…
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A Geisha(1953)
7.685mIn post-war Japan, sixteen-year-old Eiko seeks out the geisha Miyoharu in the district of Gion, in Kyoto asking her to be a maiko (geisha…
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Miss Oyu(1951)
7.494mShinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu.
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The Woman in the Rumor(1954)
7.483mHatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto.
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Sisters of the Gion(1936)
7.495mUmekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming…
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Taira Clan Saga(1955)
7.3108mSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan.
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The 47 Ronin(1941)
7.2241mIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace.
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Women of the Night(1948)
7.275mIn the post-war Japan, Fusako Owada lives in the home of her mother-in-law with her baby that is ill while waits for the return of her…
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The Lady of Musashino(1951)
7.288mSet in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei(1955)
7.198mIn 8th-century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife.
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Utamaro and His Five Women(1946)
7.0106mUtamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models.
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Oyuki the Virgin(1935)
6.778mDuring a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run…
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