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Informationen zum Autor Tadao Sato is one of Japan's most prestigious film critics. He has written on many of the great masters of Japanese cinema - Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura - as well as on Asian and global cinema more generally. He is currently the President of the Japan Academy of Moving Images.Edited by Aruna Vasudev and Latika Padgaonkar Translated from the Japanese by Brij Tankha Klappentext Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters - together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa - of Japanese cinema. Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema is the definitive guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the twentieth century.Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a wealthy family, Mizoguchi's early life influenced the themes he would take up in his work. His father's ambitious business ventures failed and the family fell into poverty. His mother died and his elder sister was obliged to enter a geisha house to support the family. Her earnings paid for Mizoguchi's education. Weak and deluded men and strong, self-sacrificing women - these were to become the obsessive motifs of Mizoguchi's films.Mizoguchi's apprenticeship in cinema was peculiarly Japanese. His concerns - the role of women and the realist representation of the inequities of Japanese society - were not. Through two World Wars, Japan's culture changed. Though censored, Mizoguchi continued to produce films. It was only in the 1950s that Mizoguchi's astonishing cinematic vision became widely known outside Japan.Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema tells the full story of this famously perfectionist, even tyrannical, director. Mizoguchi's key films, cinematographic techniques and his social and aesthetic concerns are all discussed and set in the context of Japan's changing popular and political culture. Zusammenfassung A guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the twentieth century - Kenji Mizoguchi. It discusses Mizoguchi's key films, cinematographic techniques and his social and aesthetic concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An Original Spirit2. Encountering the New Theatre3. From New Theatre to Naturalism-Realism4. Social Realism -The Time of Leftist Films - Metropolitan Symphony5. The Fate of Matinee Idols6. Man Imitates Art in Life7. The Three Traditional Art (Geidomono) Films8. A Difficult Woman9. Recreating the Classics10. The Last Works11. The Dialectic of Camera and Performance12. Looking Up, Looking Down13. Yoda YoshikataChronology of Life and Work...
