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    Life of Oharu

    1964 · Drama · 2h 26m

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Life_of_OharuThe Life of Oharu - Wikipedia

    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.

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  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0045112The Life of Oharu (1952) - IMDb

    The Life of Oharu: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. With Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune. Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

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    • Kenji Mizoguchi
    • 1964-04-20

  5. archive.org › details › the-life-of-oharuThe Life Of Oharu : Kenji Mizoguchi : Free Download, Borrow ...

    Mar 12, 2021 · The Life Of Oharu. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952.

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  7. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › great-movie-the-lifeThe Life of Oharu movie review (1952) | Roger Ebert

    Oct 29, 2012 · A life of epic suffering. Roger Ebert October 29, 2012. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Here is the saddest film I have ever seen about the life of a woman. It begins on a chill dawn when the heroine wanders, her face behind a fan, until encountering some of her fellow prostitutes.

  8. www.criterion.com › films › 27705The Life of Oharu (1952) | The Criterion Collection

    The Life of Oharu. A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952.

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    Oharu, a 50-year-old prostitute in the Genroku Era of 17th-century Japan, contemplates her past in front of a Buddha image. The youthful daughter of a samurai in the Imperial Palace of Kyoto, she falls in love with a man from a lower class. As punishment, her lover is decapitated, and her family...

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    In feudal Japan, Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka), the daughter of royal samurai Shinzaemon (Ichiro Sugai), secretly has a passionate romance with Katsunosuke (Toshirô Mifune), a man with a meager social...

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