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Kenji Mizoguchi

The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)

Director Kenji Mizoguchi Composer Ichirô Saitô Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
133' - 1952 - Drama - 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

More info

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

"Kōshoku Ichidai Onna" (Ihara Saikaku)

Year

1952