Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) Classic Films Agent Provocateur)

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Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) Classic Films Agent Provocateur)Over the course of a three decade, more than eighty film career, master cineaste Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff) would return again and again to one abiding theme: the plight of women in Japanese society. In these four lacerating works of social consciousnesstwo prewar (Osaka Elegy, Sisters of the Gion), two postwar (Women of the Night, Street of Shame)Mizoguchi introduces an array of compelling female protagonists, crushed or resilient,