Saikaku ichidai onna /

Saikaku ichidai onna /

西鶴一代女
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In 17th-century Japan, a samurai's daughter, Oharu, falls in love with a 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. A peerl...

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Corporate Authors: Criterion Collection (Firm), Koi Purodakushon, Shintōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
Other Authors: Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956 (Screenwriter), Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991 (Screenwriter), Koi, Hideo (Producer), Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor), Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Actor), Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988 (Actor), Sugai, Ichiro (Actor), Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977 (Actor), Shimizu, Masao, 1908-1975 (Actor), Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975 (Actor), Yanagi, Eijirō, 1895-1984 (Actor), Ichikawa, Haruyo (Actor), Sawamura, Sadako, 1908-1996 (Actor), Yoshii, Isamu, 1886-1960 (Screenwriter), Andrew, Dudley, 1945- (Commentator), Hirano, Yoshimi (director of photography), Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693, Saitō, Ichirō, 1909-1979 (Musical director), Shiganoya, Benkei (Actor), Yamane, Hisako, 1921-1990 (Actor)
Format: Unknown
Language:Japanese
English
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Edition:DVD special ed
Series:Criterion collection ; 664
Subjects:
Ihara, Saikaku, > 1642-1693 > Film adaptations.
Prostitutes > Japan > Drama
Women > Japan > Social conditions > 17th century > Drama
Japan > Social conditions > 17th century > Drama
Feature films
Feature films > Japan
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Foreign language films > Japanese
Historical films

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