The Life of Oharu
1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[2]
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Directed by | Kenji Mizoguchi |
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Based on | The Life of an Amorous Woman by Saikaku Ihara |
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Cinematography | Yoshimi Hirano |
Edited by | Toshio Gotō |
Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
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Distributed by | Shintoho |
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Running time | 136 minutes[3] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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