Life Of Oharu [VHS] (1952)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi.
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune
Japanese film with English subtitles, 136 minutes.
Dramatic look at one woman's
harsh life in Japan's feudal society. After shaming her family by loving a
peasant and being forced to become a concubine, she sinks deeper and deeper until she
ends up an aging prostitute.
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