Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
	Poster
Kanji	ある映画監督の生涯溝口健二の記録
Revised Hepburn	Aru eiga-kantoku no shōgai Mizoguchi Kenji no kiroku
Directed by	Kaneto Shindō
Written by	Kaneto Shindō
Produced by	Kaneto Shindō
Narrated by	Kaneto Shindō
Cinematography	Yoshiyuki Miyake
Edited by	Mitsuo Kondo; Keiko Fujita;
Distributed by	Art Theatre Guild
Release date	24 May 1975 (Japan);
Running time	150 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Kanjiある映画監督の生涯溝口健二の記録

Revised HepburnAru eiga-kantoku no shōgai Mizoguchi Kenji no kiroku

Directed byKaneto Shindō

Written byKaneto Shindō

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (ある映画監督の生涯溝口健二の記録, Aru Eiga-kantoku no Shōgai Mizoguchi Kenji no Kiroku) is a 1975 Japanese documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi. It was produced, written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.^[1]^[2]

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v t e Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film
1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)
1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)
1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)
1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)
2001–2020	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020)
2021–present	Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) Okiku and the World (2024) All the Long Nights (2025)

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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Poster

Kanji	ある映画監督の生涯溝口健二の記録

Revised Hepburn	Aru eiga-kantoku no shōgai Mizoguchi Kenji no kiroku


Directed by	Kaneto Shindō
Written by	Kaneto Shindō
Produced by	Kaneto Shindō
Narrated by	Kaneto Shindō
Cinematography	Yoshiyuki Miyake
Edited by	Mitsuo Kondo Keiko Fujita
Distributed by	Art Theatre Guild
Release date	24 May 1975 (1975-05-24) (Japan)^[1]^[2]
Running time	150 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese