Love of the Princess

Kazuo Mori was one of Daiei Studio’s most popular and gifted genre filmmakers, best known for his contributions to the Zatoichi swordsman series but also for stylish crime thrillers like A Certain Killer (screening on April 27). He and cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa won the prestigious Asia-Pacific prize in 1957 for their sumptuous period melodrama Suzakumon, a story of aristocratic star-crossed love by one of Mizoguchi’s favorite authors, Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Ugetsu). - MoMA