Making Movies Only for Women: The World of Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi is a world-class film master who shot a total of 90 films in his lifetime. He was nominated for the Venice Film Festival for five consecutive years and won the Silver Lion twice. His works are regarded as classics that interpret the traditional beauty of Japan. His long-lens photography style of "one scene, one shot" has a profound influence on later generations. Women are an important theme in Mizoguchi's films. He is good at perfectly integrating women's beauty, tenacity and tragedy, creating many classic female images and winning world reputation. The famous Japanese film critic Tadao Sato reviews Mizoguchi's creative process in this book. He not only analyzes Mizoguchi's outstanding creative concepts and techniques, but also compares the similarities and differences between Mizoguchi and the film masters Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu of the same period. , fully demonstrating the charm of Kenji Mizoguchi’s film world.