Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) Classic Films maestro of the macabre and

maestro of the macabre and the man behind some of the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria

and never heard from again

banned by censors

All she wants in return is help solving a riddle from her past

Directed by Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider) this story of a blue-collar family coming apart features an astonishing performance from Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) and is ripe for rediscovery

Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (Eclipse #13, DVD) Classic Films maestro of the macabre andOver 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,