1. Film director and screenwriter
Kenji Mizoguchi
Film director and screenwriter

2. Film Making: He experimented on his first few films.
Done remakes of German expressionism and adaptations of Eugene O’Neill and Leo Tolstoy.
Worked in Nikkatsu’s studio in the 1923 after an earthquake.
Had to change his filming style to fit in with the military and government standard of properganda.
Searved as president of the ‘Directors Guild of Japan’.

3. Ugetsu Monogatari (1954)
Was more popular in western regions than in Japan itself.
Based on Ugetsu Monogarari by Akinari Ueda.
It has a 100% rating on rotten tomatoes
Won a silver lion award- Best direction of the Cannes classic section
Number 3 in the Kinema Junpo’s best 10 movies releases in 1953.
Ugetsu Monogatari is translated to Tales of moonlight and rain

4. Ugetsu Monogatari:
Won awards for direction and sound at Mainichi Film Awards, cinematography from the ministry of education.
Appeared in ‘Sight and Sounds’ magazine top ten critics poll of the greatest movies ever made between
Themes are the resigned acceptance of the way things are rather than an insistence of change and the status quo.

5. Other films: around the time of Ugetsu
He was known to be able to release films within weeks.
As he based a lot of his films of German expressionism which meant the films had focused primarily on lighting.
-Film Noir
Horror films

6. Kenji Mizoguchi
His a renowned director, who is highly praised by film critics and other directors.
He was born in Hongo, Tokyo
He was hailed as a director of new realism
He developed his signature one scene one shot approach to
cinema in 1939
He was recognised as one of the three masters of Japanese
cinema, together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa

7. Ugetsu Monogatari