Miss Oyu (1951)
お遊さま
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
- Date of release
- 1951-06-22
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (64)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Casting
- Kinuyo Tanaka — Oyû Kayukawa
- Nobuko Otowa — Shizu
- Yūji Hori — Shinnosuke Seribashi
- Kiyoko Hirai — Osumi
- Reiko Kongō — Otsugi Kayukawa
- Eijirō Yanagi — Eitaro
- Eitarō Shindō — Kusaemon
- Kanae Kobayashi — Nanny
- Fumihiko Yokoyama — Book-keeper
- Jun Fujikawa — Book-keeper
- Sōji Shibata — Book-keeper
- Inosuke Kuhara — Boy
Interesting facts
Miss Oyu is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is based on the 1932 novella The Reed Cutter (Ashikari) by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
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