THE LIFE OF OHARU (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji Mizoguchi 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 astounding Kinuyo Tanaka as an imperial lady-in-waiting who gradually descends to street prostitution, was the movie that gained the director international attention, ushering in a new golden period for him.;
• Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji, Hisako Yamane, Jûkichi Uno, Eitarô Shindô, Akira Ôizumi, Kyôko Kusajima, Masao Shimizu, Daisuke Katô, Toranosuke Ogawa, Hiroshi Oizumi, Haruyo Ichikawa, Yuriko Hamada, Noriko Sengoku, Sadako Sawamura, Masao Mishima, Eijirô Yanagi, Chieko Higashiyama, Takashi Shimura, Benkei Shiganoya, Hiroshi Mizuno, Kenji Mizoguchi, Saikaku Ihara, Yoshikata Yoda
• Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
• Runtime: 2:16
• Company: Toho Co., Ltd. (Toho Company, Ltd.), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie