Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Composer
Ichirô Saitô
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Edition 1979
133'
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1952
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Japanese
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, and Oharu and her family were exiled. For Oharu there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another.
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Credits
Directors
Kenji Mizoguchi
Composers
Ichirô Saitô
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Scenario
Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda
Director of Photography
Yoshimi Hirano
Editors
Toshio Gotō
Producers
Hideo Koi, Kenji Mizoguchi
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Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Screenplay based on
"Kōshoku Ichidai Onna" (Ihara Saikaku)
Year
1952