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Osaka Elegy is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi with Isuzu Yamada
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Naniwa erejî
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Add to a movie listOsaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, Naniwa erejii) is a 1936 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Mizoguchi considered the film his first serious effort as a director, and it was also his first commercial and critical success in Japan. Osaka Elegy is often considered a companion piece to Mizoguchi's next film, Sisters of the Gion, which was released the same year and featured much the same cast and crew.
Although not among Mizoguchi's well-known works, Osaka Elegy continues to be acclaimed by critics.
Synopsis
Ayako Murai (Isuzu Yamada) is a young woman working as a telephone operator in 1930s Osaka. In order to pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling 300 yen, she agrees to become the mistress of her employer Mr. Asai. After paying her father's debts she then continues working as a mistress, this time for another workplace admirer, Mr Fujino, in an attempt to help pay her brother Hiroshi's university tuition fees. When she attempts to fool Mr Fujino into giving her extra money, so she can marry her boyfriend Nishimura, he calls the police and she is arrested for soliciting. Upon her return home she is ostracised by her family and her boyfriend and forced to leave home.Actors
Isuzu Yamada
(Ayako Murai)
Yōko Umemura
(Sumiko Asai)
Eitarō Shindō
(Yoshizo Fujino)
Takashi Shimura
(Inspector)
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