Critics like Hideo Tsumura, Akira Iwasaki and Jun Izawa suggest that the works of Kenji Mizoguchi have an affinity with the literary works of Kafu Nagai. Kaneto Shindo and Jun-ichiro Tomoda maintain in an article that Mizoguchi was, to some extent, influenced by Kafu Nagai. However, nobody has ever studied their relationship closely. It has been generally understood that Mizoguchi, in producing ‘Naniwa Erezi’ (Osaka Elegy) 1936, imitated ‘Mieko’, a story by Saburo Okada. Later Yoshikata Yoda, one of his closest colleagues, proclaims that Mizoguchi imitated ‘Tsuyu-no Atosaki’, a story by Nagai, as well as ‘Mieko’. Actually we find that a sequence in ‘Gion-no Shimai’ (Sisters of the Gion) 1936, is based on a scene in ‘Tsuyu-no Atosaki’. A close study gives us an evidence that the two works of Mizoguchi are influenced by ‘Tsuyu-no Atosaki’ in terms of their purpose, backgrounds and methods. The style Mizoguchi adopted in creating films did not change for the remaining 20 years until his death in 1956 when his last film, ‘Akasen Chitai’ was presented, which means Mizoguchi was under the influence of Kafu throughout the latter half of his life as a film director.