The Life of Oharu (1952)
8/10
133 min
1952
ja
Action
Drama
Synopsis
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, and Oharu and her family were exiled. For Oharu there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another.—George S. Davis
Cast
Toshirô Mifune as Katsunosuke Takashi Shimura as Old Man Daisuke Katô as Tasaburo Hishiya Toranosuke Ogawa as Yoshioka
