Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema - by Tadao Sato (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters - together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa - of Japanese cinema.
- About the Author: Tadao Sato is one of Japan's most prestigious film critics.
- 259 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
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Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
Kenji Mizoguchi was unquestionably one of the very greatest of all film-makers and now at last there is a book in English from a distinguished Japanese critic that tells us why. Few in the West have seen so many Mizoguchi films as Tadao Sato, nor studied them so deeply and with such sympathy. This is an invaluable book about a genius of the cinema.
On equal terms with Eisenstein, Griffith and Renoir.
One of the 20th century's greatest filmmakers.
New York Times (of Mizoguchi's work)
About the Author
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 PadgaonkarTranslated from the Japanese by Brij Tankha
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Film
Genre: Performing Arts
Number of Pages: 259
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Theme: History & Criticism
Format: Paperback
Author: Tadao Sato
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2008
TCIN: 1003034052
UPC: 9781847882301
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-6135
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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