The Life of Oharu (1952)
The Life of Oharu 西鶴一代女, Saikaku Ichidai Onna, "Saikaku's Amorous Woman" is a 1952 historical fiction black-and-white film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyo (and mother of a later daimyo) who struggles to escape the stigma of having been forced into prostitution by her father. It is based on a novel by Ihara Saikaku.
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Cast:
- Daisuke Katō
- Eijirō Yanagi
- Eitarō Shindō
- Yuriko Hamada
- Komako Hara
- Chieko Higashiyama
- Haruyo Ichikawa
- Ichirō Sugai
- Jūkichi Uno
- Toshiaki Konoe
- Kyoko Kusajima
- Tsukie Matsuura
- Toshiro Mifune
- Masao Mishima
- Toranosuke Ogawa
- Akira Oizumi
- Hiroshi Oizumi
- Sadako Sawamura
- Noriko Sengoku
- Benkei Shiganoya
- Masao Shimizu
- Takashi Shimura
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Kiyoko Tsuji
- Hisako Yamane