Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi, Director

Name: Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi, Director
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ISBN: 9780813518626

ISBN-10: 0813518628

ISBN-13: 9780813518626

Edition: 1993

Authors: Keiko McDonald, Kenji Mizoguchi

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Ugetsu Monogatari has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of the Japanese cinema since the moment in 1952 when its director, Kenji Mizoguchi, won a Silver Lion award for the film at the Venice Festival. Western audiences immediately recognized the pictorial beauty of Ugetsu and the lyrical power of Mizoguchi's camera movements, but most viewers have found the film's narrative elements puzzling and unsettling. Ugetsu seems to move between two radically different worlds: the first is a world at war, conveyed with graphic realism; the second, a highly stylized world of the supernatural, filled with ghosts and apparitions. To understand why Mizoguchi chose to incorporate these disparate…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


Ugetsu: Why Is It a Masterpiece?



Kenji Mizoguchi: A Biographical Sketch


Ugetsu


Credits and Cast


The Continuity Script


Contexts


Sources


"The House Amid the Thickets" and "The Lust of the White Serpent"



Preproduction: The Script


Letter from Kenji Mizoguchi to His Scriptwriter Yoshikata Yoda


Reviews and Commentaries


Reviews


Kinema Jumpo



New York Times



Motion Picture Herald



Time


Art



The Observer



Films and Filming



Commentaries


What Is Mise-en-Scene?



Distance and Beauty in the Films of Mizoguchi



The Master Mizoguchi in Six Critical Perspectives: Ugetsu



Mizoguchi Kenji



Mizoguchi: The Ghost Princess and the Seaweed Gatherer



The Samurai Film without Samurai



Ugetsu



The Subject and Form of Traditional Theater Made into a Film - Ugetsu



Filmography and Bibliography


Mizoguchi Filmography, 1923-1956


Selected Bibliography