Kenji Mizoguchi Movies

List of the best Kenji Mizoguchi movies: The Woman in the Rumor(1954), The 47 Ronin(1941), Utamaro and His Five Women(1946), Miyamoto Musashi(1944), Chikamatsu Monogatari(1954) ... ...

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The Woman in the Rumor

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out ... See full summary »

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The 47 Ronin

The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.

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Utamaro and His Five Women

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for ... See full summary »

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Miyamoto Musashi

Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father's death. The killers of their father see the sister and... See full summary »

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Chikamatsu Monogatari

An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.

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