It is striking in any case how filmmakers , separated by a war and an ocean , began working simultaneously on ideas that had lain fallow since the end of the silent era -LRB- while Kenji Mizoguchi , in Japan , had never abandoned the method -RRB- .
Kenji Mizoguchi /people/person/nationality Japan
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Kenji Mizoguchi
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Japan
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