2. Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

Week 8★Nov 23^rd    No Class 
[National Holiday]

Homework Viewing:

Osaka Elegy「浪華悲歌」[click the title you would find its YouTube version], Dir. MIZOGUCHI Kenji・溝口健二, 1936

Week 9★Nov 30^th   Lecture & Discussion

Required Readings

Mori, Toshie. ‘All for Money: Mizoguchi Kenji’s Osaka Elegy (1936)’, in Phillips, A. & Stringer, J., 2007. Japanese cinema: texts and contexts, London: London. Pp37-49 [click HERE]

Bordwell, David. & Kristin,Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (3rd edition), McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010, p226-228

For YEAR-4 and Above:

Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo. 2008. Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004. p49-61 [CLICK HERE; please read the right pages]

David Bordwell's blog entry on Mizoguchi: 

Mizoguchi: Secrets of the exquisite image