Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters--together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa--of Japanese cinema. Ten years in the making, Kenji Mizoguc

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Donald Kirihara examines in extraordinary detail the brilliant early works of one of the world's great film directors, offering an in-depth analysis of his care

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