Mizoguchi (written: 溝口 lit. "gutter/drain entrance") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Hajime Mizoguchi is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano at the age of 3, and the cello at the age of 11. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. In 1986, ...

, musician *, Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' *

Kazuhiro Mizoguchi is a Japanese former javelin thrower. He set the world best year performance in 1989, throwing 87.60 metres at a meet in San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cu ...

, javelin thrower *

Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include ''The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), ''The Life of Oharu'' (1952), ''Uget ...

, filmmaker *

Koji Mizoguchi Koji Mizoguchi (born in 1963) is a Japanese archaeologist and a professor of social archaeology in the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University. He studies the comparative emergence of societies in Europe and Japan and h ...

(born in 1963), Japanese archaeologist *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *

Noriko Mizoguchi is a retired judoka from Japan. Overviews Mizoguchi claimed the silver medal in the Women's Half-Lightweight (– 52 kg) division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In the final she was defeated by Spain's Almudena Muñ ...

, Japanese judoka

Fictional characters

* Hiroshi Mizoguchi, ''

Hikaru no Go is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekl ...

'' * Mizoguchi Makoto, ''

Fighter's History is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original ''Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different sequels ...

'' * The main character of Yukio Mishima's novel ''

Kinkaku-ji , officially named , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the most popular buildings in Kyoto, attracting many visitors annually.Bornoff, Nicholas (2000). ''The National Geographic Traveler: Japan''. National Geographic Society ...

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