# Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi(溝口 健二,Mizoguchi Kenji, 16 Mayıs 1898 – 24 Ağustos 1956)#YÖNLENDİRME , Japon film yönetmeni ve senaristtir.
Mizoguchi'nin eseri, uzun süren çekimler ve mizanseni ile ünlüdür. Yazar Mark Le Fanu'ya göre, "Filmleri olağanüstü bir güç ve saflığa sahip, izleyiciyi insan acılarıyla yüz yüze kaldıkları güç, incelik ve merhametle sallamakta hareket ettiriyorlar." şeklinde ifadetmiştir.
Ugetsu (1953), Venedik Film Festivali'nde Gümüş Aslan'ı kazandı ve 1962 ve 1972 yıllarındaki Sight & Sound Critics Top Ten Anketinde yer aldı. Diğer Kritiklerin Öyküsü (1939), Oharu'nun Hayatı (1952) ve Yargıtay Sansosu (1954) gibi Mizoguchi'nin diğer tanınmış filmleridir.


## Filmografi.
  - 1923 "813" (The Adventures of Arsène Lupin)
  - 1923 "Blood and Soul" (Chi to Rei)
  - 1923 "Dreams of Youth" (Seishun no Yumeji)
  - 1923 "Foggy Harbour" (Kiri no Minato)
  - 1923 "Harbour of Desire" (Joen no Chimata)
  - 1923 "In the Ruins" (Haikyo no Naka)
  - 1923 "Song of Failure" (Haisan no Uta wa Kanashi)
  - 1923 "The Night" (Yoru)
  - 1924 "Chronicle of the Rainy Season" (Samidare Zoshi)
  - 1924 "Death at Dawn" (Aka Tsuki no Shi)
  - 1924 "Queen of Modern Times" (Gendai no Jo)
  - 1924 "Queen of the Circus" (Kyokubadan no Jo)
  - 1924 "Song of the Mountain Pass" (Toge no Uta)
  - 1924 "Strong is the Female" (Jose wa Tsuyoshi)
  - 1924 "The Sad Idiot" (Kanashiki Hakuchi)
  - 1924 "This Dusty World" (Jin-Kyo)
  - 1924 "Turkeys in a Row/The Trace of a Turkey" (Shichimencho no Yukue)
  - 1924 "Woman of Pleasure" (Kanraku no Onna)
  - 1925 "A Sketch on the Road/Street Scenes" (Gaijo no Sukechi)
  - 1925 "General Nogi and Kuma-San" (Nogi Taisho to Kuma-San)
  - 1925 "No Money, No Fight" (Musen Fusen)
  - 1925 "Out of College" (Gakuso o Idete)
  - 1925 "Song of Home" (Furusato no Uta)
  - 1925 "The Earth Smiles" (Daichi wa Hohoemu)
  - 1925 "The Human Being" (Ningen)
  - 1925 "The White Lily Laments" (Shirayuki wa Nageku)
  - 1925 "Under the Crimson Sunset" (Akai Yuki ni Terasarete)
  - 1926 "A Paper Doll’s Whisper of Spring" (Kami-Ning-Yo Haru No Sasayaki)
  - 1926 "It’s My Fault New Version" (Shin Onoga Tsumi)
  - 1926 "Kin"
  - 1926 "Passion of a Woman Teacher" (Kyoren no Onna Shisho)
  - 1926 "The Boy From the Sea" (Kaikoku Danji)
  - 1926 "The Copper Coin King" (Doka-O)
  - 1927 "The Cuckoo New Version" (Jihi Shincho)
  - 1927 "The Imperial Grace" (Ko-On)
  - 1928 "A Man’s Life" (Hito no Issho)
  - 1928 "My Loving Daughter" (Musume Kawaiya)
  - 1929 "Bridge of Japan" (Nihonbashi)
  - 1929 "Metropolitan Symphony" (Tokai Kokyogaku)
  - 1929 "The Morning Sun Shines" (朝日は輝く "Asahi wa kagayaku")
  - 1929 "Tokyo March" (東京行進曲 "Tōkyō kōshin-kyoku")
  - 1930 "Hometown" (Fujiwara Yoshie no furusato)
  - 1930 "Tojin Okichi" (唐人お吉 "Tōjin Okichi")
  - 1931 "And Yet They Go On" (Shikamo Karera wa Yuku)
  - 1932 "Dawn in Manchuria/The Dawn of the Founding of Manchuko and Mongolia"
  - 1932 "The Man of the Moment/Timely Mediator" (Toki no Ujigami)
  - 1933 "Gion Festival" (Gion Matsuri)
  - 1933 "The Shimpu Group" (Shimpu-Ren)
  - 1933 "Cascading White Threads/White Threads of the Waterfall/The Water Magician" (滝の白糸 "Taki no Shiraito")
  - 1934 "Aizō Tōge" (愛憎峠 "The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate"), a lost film.
  - 1935 "Oyuki the Virgin" (Maria no Oyuki)
  - 1935 "The Downfall of Osen" (折鶴お千 "Orizuru Osen")
  - 1935 "The Poppy" (Gubijin-so)
  - 1936 "Naniwa Elegy" a.k.a. "Osaka Elegy" (浪華悲歌 "Naniwa hika" or "Naniwa erejī")
  - 1936 "Sisters of the Gion" (祇園の姉妹 "Gion no kyōdai")
  - 1937 "Straits of Love and Hate" (愛怨峡 "Aien kyō")
  - 1938 "Song of the Camp" (Roei no Uta)
  - 1939 "The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums" (残菊物語 "Zangiku monogatari")
  - 1940 "A Woman of Osaka" (Naniwa Onna)
  - 1941 "The 47 Ronin" a.k.a. "The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era" (元禄忠臣蔵 "Genroku chūshingura")
  - 1941 "The Life of an Actor" (Geido Ichidai Otoko)
  - 1944 "Miyamoto Musashi"　(宮本武蔵)
  - 1944 "Three Generations of Danjuro" (Danjuro Sandai)
  - 1945 "The Famous Sword Bijomaru" (名刀美女丸 "Meitō Bijomaru")
  - 1945 "Victory Song" (Hisshoka) Dir: Masahiro Makino and Hiroshi Shimizu (Mizoguchi directed opening sequence only)
  - 1946 "Utamaro and His Five Women" a.k.a. "Five Women Around Utamaro" (歌麿をめぐる五人の女 "Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna")
  - 1946 "Victory of Women" (Josei no Shori)
  - 1947 "The Love of the Actress Sumako" (女優須磨子の恋 "Joyū Sumako no koi")
  - 1948 "Women of the Night" (夜の女たち "Yoru no onnatachi")
  - 1949 "Flame of My Love" (わが恋は燃えぬ "Waga Koi wa Moenu")
  - 1950 "Portrait of Madame Yuki" a.k.a. "A Picture of Madame Yuki" (雪夫人絵図 "Yuki fujin ezu")
  - 1951 "Miss Oyu" (お遊さま "Oyū-sama")
  - 1951 "The Lady of Musashino" a.k.a. "Lady Musashino" (武蔵野夫人 "Musashino fujin")
  - 1952 "The Life of Oharu" (西鶴一代女 "Saikaku ichidai onna")
  - 1953 "A Geisha" a.k.a. "Gion Music Festival" (祇園囃子 "Gion bayashi")
  - 1953 "Ugetsu" (雨月物語 "Ugetsu monogatari")
  - 1954 "Sansho the Bailiff" (山椒大夫 "Sanshō dayū")
  - 1954 "The Crucified Lovers" a.k.a. "A Story from Chikamatsu" (近松物語 "Chikamatsu monogatari")
  - 1954 "The Woman in the Rumor" a.k.a. "The Crucified Woman" (噂の女 "Uwasa no onna")
  - 1955 "Tales of the Taira Clan" (Shin Heike Monogatari)
  - 1955 "Princess Yang Kwei-Fei" (Yokihi)
  - 1956 "Street of Shame" (Akasen Chitai)