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| KENJI MIZOGUCHI Master Sensei |
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| Five Essential Films Osaka Elegy (1936) The Sisters of Gion (1936) The Life of Oharu (1952) Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) |
| Few Rarely Seen Story Last Chrysanthemum (1939) Utamaro and his Five Women (1946) The Crucified Lovers (1954) |
| The psychological weight and density that the audience experiences in a film is different in a continuous one-cut scene than in a scene chopped into cuts and cross-cuts. |
| I usual write notes for each movie that I see but when I went and saw the Mizoguschi retrospective a few years ago I would come home and draw what I had seen rather than write about it. Mizoguchi's masterful framing was too great for words to express. He took cinema a step futhur than Eisenstein and all the early theorist who believed that the key to cinema was associative editing. |
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