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Kenji Mizoguchi
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Kenji Mizoguchi

1898 – 1956 · aged 58

Japanese film director and screenwriter (1898-1956)

Born
16 May 1898 · Tokyo
Died
24 Aug 1956 · Kyoto

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 67 years
  1. 16 May 1898BornBorn in Tokyo
  2. 1952AwardGolden Lion
  3. 1953AwardSilver Lion
  4. 1954AwardGolden Lion
  5. 1955AwardBlue Ribbon Awards for Best Director
  6. 1955AwardMedal with Purple Ribbon
  7. 1956AwardBlue Ribbon Awards
  8. 1956AwardMainichi Film Awards
  9. 1956AwardOrder of the Sacred Treasure, 4th class
  10. 24 Aug 1956DiedDied in Kyoto

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1898 – 1956).

  1. 1898Spanish–American War
  2. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  3. 1914 – 1918World War I
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis

Biography

Kenji Mizoguchi (溝口 健二, Mizoguchi Kenji; 16 May 1898 – 24 August 1956) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed roughly one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), with the latter three all being awarded at the Venice International Film Festival. A recurring theme of his films was the oppression of women in historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese cinema.

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