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The Life of Oharu (1952)

Name: The Life of Oharu
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Genre: drama film
Rating: 8

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.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · Cut by Toshio Gotō · Music by Ichirō Saitō

Behind the scenes

The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka - The Life of Oharu — CRITERION · 4 min

Elsewhere

More by Kenji Mizoguchi

Rupimono — 1923
The Day When Love Returns — 1923
Song of Home — 1925
Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring — 1926
Bird of Mercy — 1927
The Morning Sun Shines — 1929
Tokyo March — 1929
Urban Symphony — 1929
The Nihon Bridge — 1929
Tojin Okichi — 1930
Home Town — 1930
The Water Magician — 1933
The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate — 1934
The Downfall of Osen — 1935
Poppy — 1935
Oyuki the virgin — 1935
Sisters of the Gion — 1936
Osaka Elegy — 1936
The Straits of Love and Hate — 1937
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum — 1939
A Woman of Osaka — 1940
The 47 Ronin — 1941
The Life of an Actor — 1941
Miyamoto Musashi — 1944
Three Generations of Danjuro — 1944
The Famous Sword Bijomaru — 1945
Victory Song — 1945
Utamaro and His Five Women — 1946
The Victory of Women — 1946
The Love of the Actress Sumako — 1947

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