The Life of Oharu Plot
Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.
The Life of Oharu is a drama movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai and Toshirō Mifune. It is directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
The Life of Oharu Cast
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as Oharu -
as Tomo, Oharu's Mother -
as Shinzaemon, Oharu's Father -
as Katsunosuke -
as Lord Harutaka Matsudaira -
as Landlady -
as Lady Matsudaira -
as Yakichi Ogiya -
as Kahe Sasaya -
as Fumikichi, Sasaya's Friend
The Life of Oharu Latest Trailers
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User Review
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Here is the saddest film I have ever seen about the life of a woman. It begins on a chill dawn when the heroine wanders, her face behind a fan, until encountering some of her fellow prostitutes. "It's hard for a 50-year-old women to pass as 20," she observes. She says it has been a slow night: She was only picked up by an old man, who took her into a candlelit room filled with young men. "Look at this painted face!" he told them. "Do you still want to buy a woman?" To be held up as a moral spectacle is a cruel fate for a woman who has been treated immorally almost every day of her life, and who has always behaved as morally as it was within her power to do The women find a friend who has... |
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