The Life of Oharu (1952)
Note: this print runs 137 minutes against a recorded 148 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichirō Sugai, Toshirō Mifune, Chieko Higashiyama, Takashi Shimura, Jūkichi Uno, Eitarō Shindō, Masao Shimizu
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
The Life of Oharu (西鶴一代女, Saikaku ichidai onna; lit. "Saikaku: Life of a woman") is a 1952 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda is based on various stories from Saikaku Ihara's 1686 work The Life of an Amorous Woman. Kinuyo Tanaka stars as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō (and mother of a later daimyō) who struggles to escape the stigma of having been forced into prostitution by her father.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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