The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 679 1950s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
205 audience votes
Key crew
- Kenji MizoguchiWriter
- Yoshikata YodaWriter
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector
- Ichirō SaitōOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kinuyo TanakaOharu
- Tsukie MatsuuraTomo
- Ichirō SugaiShinzaemon
- Hisako YamaneLady Matsudaira
- Toshirō MifuneKatsunosuke
- Jūkichi UnoYakichi Ogiya
- Eitarō ShindōKahe Sasaya
- Akira ŌizumiFumikichi
- Masao ShimizuKikuoji
- Daisuke KatōTasaburo Hishiya
- Toranosuke OgawaYoshioka
- Eijirō YanagiCounterfeiter
Stills
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Themes
prostitutebased on novel or bookdespaircourtesanbanishmentconcubinememorytold in flashbackforced prostitutionnoblewomanshameedo period
The Best Japanese Drama Movies
The Life of Oharu is #15 of 60
