Mizoguchi, Melodrama, and the Psychology of Nature: Exploring Relationships Between Worlds in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Musashino Fujin (1951)

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Notes

1 Russell, Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited.

2 Ibid., p. 11.

3 Mizoguchi, “Spring, South, Women and Life,” in The Complete Writings of Kenji Mizoguchi (1923–1956), p. 289.

4 McDonald. From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Film, p. 116.

5 Ibid., p. 114.

6 Mizoguchi. Musashino Fujin Movie Promotion Pamphlet (September, 1951), in The Complete Writings of Kenji Mizoguchi (1923–1956), pp. 331-332.

7 Dissanayake, Melodrama and Asian Cinema, p. 4.

8 Yoda, Mizoguchi Kenji no Hito to Geijustu [The Life and Art of Kenji Mizoguchi], p. 205–206.

9 Ibid.

10 LeFanu, Mizoguchi and Japan, p. 146.

11 Russell, Insides and Outsides: Cross-Cultural Criticism and Japanese Film Melodrama, in Melodrama and Asian Cinema, p. 144.

12 Ibid., 145–146.

13 McDonald, Mizoguchi, p. 100.

14 Ibid.

15 Cook, Melodrama and the Women’s Picture, in Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama, p. 252.

16 Russell, Classical Japanese Cinema, p. 54.

17 Iijima, “Yuki Fujin Ezu,” in Kinema Junpo.

18 Ibid., p. 47.

19 Futaba, “Oyu Sama,” in Kinema Junpo, p. 37.

20 Futaba, “Musashino Fujin,” in Kinema Junpo, p. 81.

21 Ibid.

22 McDonald, Mizoguchi, p. 99.

23 Sato and Yamamoto, Mizoguchi Kenji no Tokushuu.

24 Ibid., p. 26.

25 Futaba, Musashino Fujin; Futaba, Oyu Sama; Iijima, Yuki Fujin Ezu.

26 Okubo, Hajimete no Kenji Mizoguchi, p. 41.

27 McDonald, Mizoguchi.

28 Ibid., p. 100–101.

29 Okubo, Hajimete, p. 41.

30 Inouye, “Imagery in the Work of Izumi Kyoka,” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, p. 49.

31 Yoshimoto, “Melodrama, Postmodernism and Japanese Cinema,” in Melodrama and Asian Cinema, p. 107.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17K02399.