The Life of Oharu (1952)
西鶴一代女
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
- Date of release
- 1952-04-17
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (206)
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Casting
- Kinuyo Tanaka — Oharu
- Tsukie Matsuura — Tomo
- Ichirō Sugai — Shinzaemon
- Hisako Yamane — Lady Matsudaira
- Toshirō Mifune — Katsunosuke
- Jūkichi Uno — Yakichi Ogiya
- Eitarō Shindō — Kahe Sasaya
- Akira Ōizumi — Fumikichi
- Masao Shimizu — Kikuoji
- Daisuke Katō — Tasaburo Hishiya
- Toranosuke Ogawa — Yoshioka
- Eijirō Yanagi — Counterfeiter
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Life of an Amorous Woman
The Life of Oharu 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 who struggles to escape the stigma of having been forced into prostitution by her father.
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