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- Kenji Mozuguchi (1898-1956)
- After Ugetsu (1953) was heralded by French critics
- Concentrated on “women films,” realistically portraying hardships of women’s second-class status. Predominant theme was that a man’s soul is saved by a woman’s love.
- Technically noted for long, unbroken, carefully choreographed takes
- Women of the Night (1948), The Life of Oharu (1952), The Empress Yang Kwei-fei (1955), Street of Shame (1956)