An Osaka Story (1957)
大阪物語
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
- Date of release
- 1957-03-06
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Casting
- Raizō Ichikawa — Keizaburo
- Shintarō Katsu — Ichinosuke
- Kyōko Kagawa — Onatsu
- Chieko Naniwa
- Eijirō Tōno — Gonzaemon Hoshino
- Michiko Ono — Takino
- Tamao Nakamura — Aya
- Naritoshi Hayashi — Yoshitaro
- Aiko Mimasu
- Isao Yamagata
- Hisao Toake — Shinya
- Ichirō Amano — Tennojiya
Interesting facts
An Osaka Story is a 1957 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura. The film had originally been planned by Kenji Mizoguchi, who had adapted several stories by Saikaku Ihara into a script. After Mizoguchi's death, the project was assigned to Yoshimura.
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