Mizoguchi ardently opposed actress Kinuyo Tanaka's plan to become a director even though much of the other contemporary directors gladly accepted her. Ozu gave her a script, Kinoshita introduced her to his and Ozu's frequent screenwriting partner Tanaka Sumie (who also wrote about women's struggles) and Ichikawa's wife wrote for her. Still don't know why Mizoguchi did that.

@colloredbrothers

4 жыл бұрын

How the hell do you know all of this? Are you like a true underground film buff?

@SX1995able

4 жыл бұрын

@@colloredbrothers it's open knowledge on both of their biographies

People who think Mizoguchi's women are simply suffering shrinking violets don't know his films- he has strong defiant women who get their way and succeed, kind compassionate self-sacrificing women, selfish women, a whole gamut. But he does consistently show difficulties and forms of oppression they face. Most people don't know his films, or only a relatively small number.

@2wongsdontmakearice588

6 жыл бұрын

strong defiant women? yes. They got their way and succeeded? Definitely not. In LC, Otoku and Kiku both suffer but only Kiku himself flourishes while Otoku lives of the rest of her days getting sick and dies. In Sisters of Gion, both sisters display polar opposite ideology about men. One is submissive and plays the stereotypical role of a geisha women, while the other sister has a negative outlook towards men and tends to deceive them for her own gain. Both fail, but the one who suffered the most is the one that stride the most out of their societal role (she gets thrown out of a car). In Osaka Elegy, Ayako becomes a mistress to pay her father's crime and brothers tuition. But once she stole a little bit of money from a drunk dude, she gets punish severely and her family practically disowns hers (don't forget her lover basically sold her out when interrogated by police. I don't think none of these really show sacrifice or success in any way. Just a lot of shit women go through and that is what Mizoguchi is probably trying to convey in his film.

@margotalmanzar5210

4 жыл бұрын

Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns Yeah bad stuff happens to them but they are never the villains of the films. And I feel like it’s commentary on Japan at the time, how customs and traditional roles of women having to blindly serve men, compensated dating, geisha’s etc, were wrong and degrading to women, but many women had to do these things to survive and look after their family. The sisters of gion’s last scene, Omocha’s monologue, I feel like it’s Mizoguchi speaking to the viewer through her. It’s quite a powerful scene.

@RP-lg7up

4 жыл бұрын

@@2wongsdontmakearice588 Uwasa no onna Waga Koi Wa Moenu Yoru no Onnatachi Joyu Sumako no Koi Meitô bijomaru Sanshô Dayu you are very wrong

@candide1065

6 ай бұрын

Why is the depiction of women so important for you freaks? Does it make his movies any better or worse if the women in his movies are suffering more or less if it's what he envisioned for his movies? There are thousands of things worth mentioning or at least noticing in his movies but you're going wild about that of all things? pathetic.

I love Mizoguchi but I would love some Naruse Blurays. Floating Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Yearning, Scattered Clouds. Was there a better feminist Japanese director than Naruse?

@mizofan

7 жыл бұрын

Well, Mizoguchi was the world's greatest director, Naruse marvellous too, a very quiet auteur.

@cometcourse381

6 жыл бұрын

Andrei Tarkovsky was the world's greatest director. Mizoguchi is up there, though.

@RP-lg7up

4 жыл бұрын

@@cometcourse381 mdrrrrrrr

@HirokiMatsuoka-yl8eg

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@cometcourse381 Kenji Mizoguchi is the world’s greatest director. I think Tarkovsky is overrated. Michael Curtiz and Abdur Rashid Kardar, on the other hand, are people who’ve actually earned their reputations as great directors.

@candide1065

6 ай бұрын

Why is it so important, that a director is a feminist, Mr. Clown? Does it make the movies better?

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum is a work of art, one of his best and most important japanese films in history, 1939... Great artistic japanese films started with this film.

@RP-lg7up

4 жыл бұрын

"Great artistic japanese films started with this film" -> no