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1952

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The story chronicles the decline through exile, concubinage and prostitution of Oharu Okui. Her sufferings and treatment are analysed until she is finally discarded like an inanimate object. Japanese dialogue with subtitles. Read more

Starring	Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune
Director	Kenji Mizoguchi
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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The Life Of Oharu

Starring	Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune
Director	Kenji Mizoguchi
Studio	FUSION MEDIA
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 11 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1952 To Rent: DVD: 26 Apr 2004

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- This chronicle of the decline of a woman, from service in the imperial court of 17th-century Japan through exile,... read more on Time Out
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  Stange and moving
  
  This is one of those films that stays with you long after the final credits have gone. It seemed to me to be very Japanese and yet at the same time universal in... read more »
  
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  So little more to ask!
  
  This is almost a lost film ... and it is desperately, almost unendurably, sad. Oharu is betrayed, failed, cast away at every step. No happy endings. There can ... read more »
  
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- - Nigel Wilson
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  - 16 Jun 2011 at 12:23
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  Pure emotional electricity
  
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  In my unhumble opinion, this is the quintessence of Mizoguchi's genius.
  
  Based on a seventeenth century novel by writer Iharu Saikaku, the ... read more »
  
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- - BrindleyBeBarassedboutBombsquare
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  - Cardiff
  - 17 Dec 2010 at 21:12
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  Tragedy to farce
  
  A young girl's first lover is beheaded and she and her family are exiled. Then she is selected to provide an heir to a clan lord: the problem is that he ... read more »
  
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  The story chronicles the decline through exile, concubinage and prostitution of Oharu Okui. Her sufferings and treatment are analysed until she is finally discarded like an inanimate object. Japanese dialogue with subtitles....