The Life of Oharu

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Call Number: DVD FLC-JPN Life
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
Special features: commentary by Dudley Andrew ; Mizoguchi's art and the Demimonde, an illustrated audio essay featuring Andrew ; Kinuyo Tanaka's new departure, a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama ; booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez.
Toshiro Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka.
A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout its history, Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu; in 1952. But this epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the incredibly talented Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution.
DVD, PCM mono.

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