Saikaku ichidai onna / Toho, Toho Company, Ltd. ; Kabushiki Kaisha Shin Tōhō, Koi Purodakushon ; seisaku, Koi Hideo ; kyakuhon, Yoshikata Yoda, Kenji Mizoguchi ; kantaku Kenji Mizoguchi.
西鶴一代女 東宝, Toho Company, Ltd. ; 株式会社新東宝, 児井プロダクション ; 製作児井英生 ; 脚本 依田義賢 ; 監督 溝口健二.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956, screenwriter, film director, director.

Koi, Eisei, 1908-1992, producer, producer.

Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991, screenwriter, screenwriter.

Yoshii, Isamu, 1886-1960, screenwriter, screenwriter.

Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977, actor., actor.

Yamane, Hisako, 1921-1990, actor, actor.

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, actor., actor.

Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988, actor.

Sugai, Ichiro, actor, actor.

Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977, actor, actor.

Shimizu, Masao, 1908-1975, actor, actor.

Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975, actor, actor.

Yanagi, Eijirō, 1895-1984, actor, actor.

Ichikawa, Haruyo, actor, actor.

Sawamura, Sadako, 1908-1996, actor, actor.

Shiganoya, Benkei, actor, actor.

Hirano, Yoshimi, director of photography, director of photography.

Saitō, Ichirō, 1909-1979, musical director, composer.

Mizutani, Hiroshi, 1906-1971, production designer, production personnel.

Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693.

Andrew, Dudley, 1945- commentator, commentator.

Kajiyama, Kōko, 1936- filmmaker, filmmaker.

Perez, Gilberto, 1943- writer of added text, writer of added text.

Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, producer.

Kabushiki Kaisha Shin Tōhō, producer.

Koi Purodakushon, producer.

Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.

構口健二, 1898-1956, screenwriter, film director, director.

児井英生, 1908-1992, producer, producer.

依田义贤, 1909-1991, screenwriter, screenwriter.

Yoshii, Isamu, 1886-1960

田中娟代, 1909-1977, actor., actor.

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997

Uno, Jūkichi, 1914-1988

Sugai, Ichiro

新藤英太郎, 1899-1977, actor, actor.

Shimizu, Masao, 1908-1975

Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975

Yanagi, Eijirō, 1895-1984

Ichikawa, Haruyo

沢村貞子, 1908-1996, actor, actor.

Mizutani, Hiroshi, 1906-1971

Series:

Criterion collection ; 664.

The Criterion collection ; 664

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693.

Social conditions.

Prostitutes.

Women.

Japan.

Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693--Film adaptations.

Ihara, Saikaku.

Women--Japan--Social conditions--17th century--Drama.

Prostitutes--Japan--Drama.

Japan--Social conditions--17th century--Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Film adaptations.

Historical films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).

polychrome

Edition:

DVD special edition.

Other Title:

English title on container: Life of Oharu

Place of Publication:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]

Language Note:

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD; NTSC; region 1; PCM mono.

digital

optical

mono

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

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 peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout its history, Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952.

Participant:

Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane, Toshiro Mifune, Jukichi Uno, Ichiro Sugai, Eitaro Shindo, Akira Ooizumi, Masao Shimizu, Daisuke Kato, Toranosuke Ogawa, Eijiro Yanagi, Yuriko Hamada, Haruyo Ichikawa, Komako Hara, Kikue Mouri, Sadako Sawamura, Toshiaki Konoe, Kinnosuke Takamatsu, Benkei Shiganoya, Unpei Yokoyama, Tsukie Matsuura.

Credits:

Story editor, Isamu Yoshii ; cinematography by Yoshimi Hirano ; musical director, Ichiro Saito ; production design, Hiroshi Mizutani.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.

Based on a novel by Saikaku Ihara.

Special features: Dudley Andrew on The life of Oharu: Mizoguchi's art and the Demimonde (an illustrated audio essay; Commentary by Dudley Andrew; The travels of Kinuyo Tanaka (a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama documenting Tanaka's 1949 goodwill tour of the United States). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez.

Related Work:

Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693. Kōshoku ichidaionna.

ISBN:

9781604657395

1604657391

OCLC:

844084525

Publisher Number:

715515107419

CC2276D The Criterion Collection