The life of Oharu = Saikaku ichidai onna / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; [produced by Hideo Koi ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi].

In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Criterion collection ; 664.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Main Author: Saitō, Ichirō, 1909-1979 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Janus Films (Production company)
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Koi, Eisei, 1908-1992 (Producer)
Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991 (Screenwriter)
Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956 (Director)
Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor)
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Actor)
Shimizu, Masao, 1908-1975 (Actor)
Matsuura, Tsukie (Actor)
Sugai, Ichiro (Actor)
Konoe, Toshiaki (Actor)
Yamane, Hisako, 1921-1990 (Actor)
Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975 (Actor)
Ichikawa, Haruyo (Actor)
Shindo, Eitaro (Actor)
Sawamura, Sadako, 1908-1996 (Actor)
Yanagi, Eijirō, 1895-1984 (Actor)
Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988 (Actor)
Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693
Language:Japanese
English
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2013], ©2013.
Edition:DVD special ed., Full screen.
Series:Criterion collection ; 664.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Genre:
Physical Description:1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Variant Title:
Saikaku ichidai onna. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD

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