Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Year: 1933 Run-time: 1 hr 40 min Source: Youtube Notable For : I've chosen this list for the extraordinary breadth of films on it, with films chosen of nearly every nationality with no regard for their current availability (although this has caused quite a bit of frustration in tracking down these films). But every cineaste has their particular tastes, and this one has made no secret of the fact that his favorite director is Kenji Mizoguchi. And while that name isn't quite as well known as that of Mizoguchi's compatriots Kurosawa or Ozu, he was nevertheless a phenomenal director who perfected the art of the long take. Water Magician is the rare Japanese silent film that survived to the present day, and wonderfully, it's on Youtube with the Bensho narration that it would have screened with at the time (also woefully lacking in films like Page of Madness ). Verdict: Water Magician doesn't have the cinematographic style that hi...
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