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Saikaku ichidai onna (1952)
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20 April 1964 (USA) morePlot Keywords:
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2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
a masterpiece moreCast
(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 |
| Jukichi 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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Also Known As:
Diary of OharuSaikaku: Life of a Woman (literal English title)
The Life of Oharu
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148 min | USA:133 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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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'. moreFAQ
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I cannot agree with the reviewer who commented that Mizoguchi does not have the aesthetic sensibility of Kurosawa or Ozu. In fact, he appears to me to be the true master of Japanese cinema. 'Oharu' is a marvellous achievement - a compassionate, beautiful account of a quite astonishing fall from privilege and grace into destitution and despair. It is unremittingly bleak and yet due to Mizoguchi's genius and Kinuyo Tanaka's luminous portrayal of the unlucky Oharu, it is a spiritually compelling work, with sheer artistry and simple human empathy competing for our attention in every take. Breathtaking film-making of the highest quality.