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What's your favorite film by Kenji Mizoguchi?

Osaka Elegy
0 (0%)
Sisters of the Gion
0 (0%)
The Straits of Love and Hate
0 (0%)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
3 (9.4%)
The 47 Ronin
0 (0%)
Utamaro and his Five Women
0 (0%)
The Love of Sumako the Actress
0 (0%)
Women of the Night
0 (0%)
My Love Has Been Burning
1 (3.1%)
Portrait of Madame Yuki
0 (0%)
Miss Oyu
0 (0%)
The Lady of Musashino
0 (0%)
The Life of Oharu
0 (0%)
Ugetsu
7 (21.9%)
A Geisha
0 (0%)
Sansho the Bailiff
12 (37.5%)
The Woman in the Rumor (The Crucified Woman)
1 (3.1%)
The Crucified Lovers
0 (0%)
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
0 (0%)
Tales of the Taira Clan
0 (0%)
Street of Shame
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
8 (25%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 31

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MartinTeller

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Re: Mizoguchi Kenji
« Reply #30 on: May 22, 2017, 09:07:15 AM »
How come Ugetsu is known under its Japanese name but not the other ones?

That's just how it shakes out some times. It largely depends on how distributors choose to market a film.

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Re: Mizoguchi Kenji
« Reply #31 on: May 22, 2017, 07:19:58 PM »
Ugetsu isn't the Japanese title, as DH himself writes it's Ugetsu Monogatari. Also, some of the others are known by their Japanese titles, Gion bayashi, Yôkihi most prominently. Even those other two DH watched are released under their Japanese titles in the UK:

Generally the shorter and more phonetically accessible a title is, the more likely it is to not be translated, but as Martin points out, it's largely up to distributors at the end of the day.

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Re: Mizoguchi Kenji
« Reply #32 on: June 19, 2017, 05:36:04 AM »
The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemums, 50°
Extraordinary (81-100˚) | Very good (61-80˚) | Good (41-60˚) | Fair (21-40˚) | Poor (0-20˚)

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Re: Mizoguchi Kenji
« Reply #33 on: June 21, 2017, 09:31:37 AM »
Sansho the Bailiff 10/10
Ugetsu 9/10
Miss Oyu 7/10