Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
(festival title)- Aru eiga kantoku no šógai: Mizoguči Kendži no kiroku (more)
Directed by:
Kaneto ShindōScreenplay:
Kaneto ShindōPlots(1)
This documentary (shot over two years) recounts the master's life and career across some 36 interviews with actors, producers and crew members from the films. It describes the trajectory of Mizoguchi's long career clearly and accurately, and provides a lot of anecdotal testimony about his aims and working methods. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
Cast
Kaneto Shindō
Japan
乙羽信子
Japan
Best movies:
Immortal Love (1961)
The Naked Island (1960)
Onibaba (1964)
Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Machiko Kyō
Japan
Best movies:
Rashomon (1950)
Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
The Face of Another (1966)
Isuzu Yamada
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Kyōko Kagawa
Japan
Best movies:
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Yasuzo Masumura
Japan
Kazuo Miyagawa
Japan
Eitarô Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Steel Edge of Revenge (1969) - narrator
成沢昌茂
Japan
中村鴈治郎
Japan
Best movies:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
The End of Summer (1961)
Kwaidan (1964)
Michiyo Kogure
Japan
Best movies:
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
Yoshikata Yoda
Japan
Masaichi Nagata
Japan
Takako Irie
Japan
Best movies:
Sanjuro (1962)
The Most Beautiful (1944)