Research Catalog

Title

Saikaku ichidai onna [videorecording] = Life of Oharu / Toho Company, Ltd. ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda and Kenji Mizoguchi ; photography by Yoshimi Kono and Yoshimi Hirano.

Publication

[South Korea?] : YDM DVDVideo, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goto, Toshio.
• Hirano, Yoshimi.
• Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693.
• Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975.
• Koi, Hideo.
• Matsura, Tsukie.
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
• Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956.
• Saitō, Ichirō.
• Shimizu, Masao, 1908-1975.
• Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977.
• Sugai, Ichiro.
• Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977.
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
• Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988.
• YDM DVDVideo.
• Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991.

Description

1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a pretty servant. Caught together, the man is beheaded and Oharu and her family are exiled. After enduring further misfortunes as a concubine, a courtesan, wife, and prostitute, Oharu becomes a mendicant nun in her old age.

Alternative Title

• Life of O-haru
• Life of Oharu

Subjects

• Feature films
• Motion pictures, Japanese
• Prostitutes > Japan > Drama
• Samurai films
• Japan > Social conditions > Drama
• Foreign films

Note

• Originally produced as a motion picture in 1952.
• Based on a novel by Saikaku Ihara.

Credits (note)

• Associate producer, Hideo Koi ; cinematography, Yoshimi Hirano ; music, Ichirô Saitô.

Performer (note)

• Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune, Masao Shimizu, Ichiro Sugai, Daisuke Kato, Jyukichi Uno, Tsukie Matsura, Eitaro Shindo.

System Details (note)

• DVD; NTSC; all-region; Dolby Digital 2.0.

Language (note)

• In Japanese with English subtitles; includes optional Korean subtitles.

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries