Skip to content
  • View menu
  • View featured posts
  • View sidebar

Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

  • About ET
  • Writings
  • Reviews
    • Latest & Upcoming
    • 0-9
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-T
    • U-Z
    • Directors: A-C
    • Directors: D-F
    • Directors: G-I
    • Directors: J-L
    • Directors: M-O
    • Directors: P-R
    • Directors: S-T
    • Directors: U-Z

Featured

April’s Daughter (2017)

May 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Pigsty (1969)

May 26, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Alcarras (2022)

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Let It Be Morning (2021)

May 23, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Event, The (2015)

May 21, 2022May 22, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Servant, The (1963)

May 17, 2022May 19, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Autumn Tale, An (1998)

May 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Mission: Impossible (1996)

May 15, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Categories

Tags

1963 1965 1966 1967 1972 1985 1986 1987 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Abbas Kiarostami Alfred Hitchcock Canada China Denmark Documentary Eric Rohmer France Germany Hong Kong Hou, Hsiao-Hsien India Iran Japan Jean-Luc Godard Joel & Ethan Coen Krzysztof Kieslowski Martin Scorsese Mexico Philippines Poland Rainer Werner Fassbinder Ridley Scott Romania Singapore South Korea Soviet Union Spain Steven Spielberg Studio Ghibli Sweden Taiwan UK USA West Germany Zatoichi

Follow Eternality Tan on WordPress.com

Follow Me

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Supports:

Supports:

Supports:

Supports

Supports:

Tag / Kenji Mizoguchi

November 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Story from Chikamatsu, A (1954)

  • Criterion Collection, Mizoguchi, Kenji
  • 1954, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Leave a comment

Mizoguchi’s superb late career form continues with this masterful period drama about strict social norms and gender roles, with themes of adultery and romantic passion giving it thematic complexity.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
October 31, 2020February 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Osaka Elegy (1936)

  • Criterion Collection, Mizoguchi, Kenji
  • 1936, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Leave a comment

A young woman becomes her married boss’ mistress to help her debt-ridden father in this ‘30s classic from Mizoguchi that would pave way thematically for his later films about ‘fallen women’.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

  • Criterion Collection, Mizoguchi, Kenji
  • 1954, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
  • 4 Comments

One of the most tragic, treasured, and greatest of works in world cinema.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
October 25, 2020August 19, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ugetsu (1953)

  • Criterion Collection, Mizoguchi, Kenji
  • 1953, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
  • 9 Comments

Mizoguchi’s magnum opus is one of the all-time greatest films ever made – a haunting tale of greed, lust and morality that is steeped in Eastern sensuality and supernatural mythology.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
October 23, 2020February 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Life of Oharu, The (1952)

  • Criterion Collection, Mizoguchi, Kenji
  • 1952, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi
  • 2 Comments

Mizoguchi’s chronicle of one woman’s descent from nobility to prostitution is emotionally intense and terribly bleak.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Eternality Tan
    • Join 175 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Eternality Tan
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar