The Life of Oharu (1952)
Saikaku ichidai onna
133 min
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
- Release date
- April 17, 1952
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Ichirō Saitō
Where to watch
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Cast
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu
- Tsukie Matsuura as Tomo, Oharu's Mother
- Ichirō Sugai as Shinzaemon, Oharu's Father
- Hisako Yamane as Lady Matsudaira
- Toshirō Mifune as Katsunosuke
- Jūkichi Uno as Yakichi Ogiya
- Eitarō Shindō as Kahe Sasaya
- Akira Ôizumi as Fumikichi, Sasaya's Friend
- Masao Shimizu as Kikuoji
- Daisuke Katō as Tasaburo Hishiya
- Toranosuke Ogawa as Yoshioka
- Eijirô Yanagi as Counterfeiter
- Komako Hara as Otsubone Kuzui
- Kikue Môri as Myokai, the old nun
- Sadako Sawamura as Sasaya's wife Owasa
- Toshiaki Konoe as Lord Harutaka Matsudaira
- Kiyoko Tsuji as Landlady
- Kyôko Kusajima as Sodegaki
- Benkei Shiganoya as Jihei
- Aizō Tamashima as Old Man
Crew
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Director
- Saikaku Ihara · Writer
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Writer
- Yoshikata Yoda · Writer
- Eisei Koi · Producer
- Kenji Mizoguchi · Producer
- Ichirō Saitō · Composer
- Yoshimi Hirano · Cinematographer
- Toshio Gotô · Editor
- Hiroshi Mizutani · Production designer