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20 April 1964 (USA)
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The tale of a 17th century samurai's daughter. full summary | add synopsis
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Gentle consciousness-raiser
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kinuyo Tanaka | ... | Oharu | |
| Tsukie Matsuura | ... | Tomo, Oharu's Mother | |
| Ichirô Sugai | ... | Shinzaemon, Oharu's Father | |
| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Katsunosuke | |
| Toshiaki Konoe | ... | Lord Harutaka Matsudaira | |
| Kiyoko Tsuji | ... | Landlady | |
| Hisako Yamane | ... | Lady Matsudaira | |
| Jûkichi Uno | ... | Yakichi Ogiya | |
| Eitarô Shindô | ... | Kahe Sasaya | |
| Akira Oizumi | ... | Fumikichi, Sasaya's Friend | |
| Kyôko Kusajima | ... | Sodegaki | |
| Masao Shimizu | ... | Kikuoji | |
| Daisuke Katô | ... | Tasaburo Hishiya | |
| Toranosuke Ogawa | ... | Yoshioka | |
| Hiroshi Oizumi | ... | Manager Bunkichi |
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148 min | USA:133 min
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This film, which was director Kenji Mizoguchi's dream project, was severely under-financed, and the production was forced to use a warehouse instead of a regular sound stage. This warehouse happened to be located near railways, and each time a train passed by, they had to stop shooting, which made the shooting of the film even more difficult with the director's obsessive use of long, continuous, uninterrupted takes. The same warehouse was also used for Josef Von Sternberg's film 'The Saga of Anatahan'.
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Referenced in Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences (2006) (V)
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Mizoguchi's films are capable, I think, of teaching life lessons without preaching or grandstanding. This film could cause a male chauvinist to join a consciousness-raising make sensitivity group. In a simple,understated way, the film outlines the tyrannies that made happiness almost impossible for women, not only in feudal Japan, but all over the world. It comments on the use of women's bodies as sex objects and baby-making machines, with no regard for women's minds or feelings. Notice, by the way, that Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka)is supposed to age from 18 to 50-and she really seems to age although makeup in the 1950s was not as advanced an art as it is now. The aging process is achieved through Tanaka's acting. And if she does not seem to us to be quite the ravaged old "witch" that one of her customers claims she is, then so much the better to let us know that she is being judged by an insensitive society.