‎Osaka Elegy

‎Osaka Elegy (1936)

浪華悲歌

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

Erscheinungsdatum
1936-05-28
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (70)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 11 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Mizoguchi Kenji

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Osaka Elegy is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion which shares much of the same cast and production team, and is considered an early masterpiece in the director's career.

Background

Osaka Elegy was the first mutual project of Mizoguchi and Yoshikata Yoda, his regular screenwriter for years to come. After the film's success, Mizoguchi and producer Masaichi Nagata planned two films to be set in Kyōto and Kōbe, of which only the former, Sisters of the Gion, was realised due to the production company's collapse.

Mizoguchi himself cited Osaka Elegy and Sisters of the Gion as the works with which he achieved artistic maturity. Critics and film historians regard Osaka Elegy as one of Mizoguchi's "finest efforts" (Fred Camper, Chicago Reader) and "best films" (Donald Richie, Joseph L. Anderson, The Japanese Film – Art & Industry), emphasising "its visual precision and its engaged but never preachy tone" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out).

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