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31 January 1979 (USA) more
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Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father's debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Isuzu Yamada ... Ayako Murai
Seiichi Takegawa ... Junzo Murai
Chiyoko Okura ... Sachiko Murai
Shinpachiro Asaka ... Hiroshi Murai
Benkei Shiganoya ... Sonosuke Asai
Yôko Umemura ... Sumiko Asai
Kensaku Hara ... Susumu Nishimura
Shizuko Takizawa ... Mine Fukuda, the maid
Eitarô Shindô ... Yoshizo Fujino
Kunio Tamura ... Dr. Yoko
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Kasuke Koizumi
Takashi Shimura ... Inspector
Mitsuzo Tachibana ... Famizaburo Matsushita
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Also Known As:
Naniwa Elegy (USA)
Naniwa hika
Osaka Elegy
Woman of Osaka
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Runtime:
71 min | Argentina:90 min | USA:90 min | Japan:89 min
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Featured in 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1994) (TV) more

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Lamentations of a poet, 10 August 2001
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Author: Aaron Sheley (asheley@usc.edu) from Los Angeles, CA

It was this film alone that drove me into an intense obsession with cinema. Mizoguchi is the great Japanese master, and Osaka Elegy reveals his genius. From his long take compositions that are taxed with complexity and tension, to his ambigious depictions of character, I felt like I had grown after I had seen this film. Notice the national allegory at the film's conclusion, a confused and lonely Japan. And his inconclusive final shot taken many years before the well known 400 Blows. The devastating melodrama is not undercut by any cinematic manipulation. I highly recommend this to any lover of the cinematic medium. Also, I am a sucker for self-reflexive Kabuki theater sequences...

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