The Life of Oharu (1952)

A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, and Oharu and her family were exiled. For Oharu there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another.

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi Saikaku Ihara Yoshikata Yoda

Akira Ôizumi Daisuke Katô Eitarô Shindô Haruyo Ichikawa Hiroshi Mizuno Hisako Yamane Ichirô Sugai Jûkichi Uno Kenji Mizoguchi Kinuyo Tanaka Kiyoko Tsuji Kyôko Kusajima Masao Shimizu Noriko Sengoku Saikaku Ihara Toranosuke Ogawa Toshiaki Konoe Toshirô Mifune Tsukie Matsuura Yoshikata Yoda Yuriko Hamada