目次

Chapter One: Why Mizoguchi? Chapter Two: Preliminary clarifications -thehistorical background -biographical considerations -Mizoguchi on set ChapterThree: The Great Triptych ( The Life of Oharu, Sansho The Bailiff, UgetsuMonogatari) Chapter Four: Further Historical Masterpieces (The Loyal 47Ronin, Chikamatsu Monogatari, The Empress Yang Kwei Fei, Tales of the TairaClan) Chapter Five: Geisha, Prostitution and the Street (Osaka Elegy, Sistersof the Gion, Straits of Love and Hate, Women of the Night, Street of Shame,Gion Festival Music, The Woman of Rumour) Chapter Six: Respectable Women (The Love of Sumako the Actress, My Love Has Been Burning, A Picture of MadameYuki, Miss Oyu, The Lady from Musashino) Chapter Seven: Alive or Dead? (Mizoguchi's films up to 1936, and The Story of the Last Crysanthemum)Annotated bibliography Annotated filmography