Tag: Kenji Mizoguchi
Criterion Collection: A Story from Chikamatsu | Blu-ray Review
Playing like the tortured precursor to Masahiro Shinoda’s similarly tragic tale of stymied romance with 1969’s Double Suicide is the great Kenji Mizoguchi’s late...
The Criterion Collection: Ugetsu | Blu-ray Review
A cornerstone of Japanese cinema, Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece Ugetsu at last receives an updated transfer from the Criterion collection. In the middle of...
Criterion Collection: The Life of Oharu | Blu-ray Review
After remastering Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff earlier this year for Blu-ray, Criterion unleashes another of the auteur’s trio of early 50’s Venice prize winners...
Criterion Collection: Sansho the Bailiff | Blu-ray review
While less known than his equally revered contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, the filmography of Kenji Mizoguchi may arguably be the more successfully...
