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The Life of Oharu

1952 · 136 min

A slow, devastating descent through one woman's life, told with quiet dignity and crushing inevitability.

Overview
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • gender
  • grief
  • isolation
  • fate
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight10

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Kenji Mizoguchi
Written by
Yoshikata Yoda, Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirō Sugai, Hisako Yamane, Toshirō Mifune, Jūkichi Uno, Eitarō Shindō, Akira Ōizumi
Music
Ichirō Saitō
Cinematography
Yoshimi Hirano
Runtime
136 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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