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The Life of Oharu 1952 123movies

The Life of Oharu 1952 123movies

Apr. 17, 1952136 Min.
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Watch: 西鶴一代女 1952 123movies, Full Movie Online – A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, and Oharu and her family were exiled. For Oharu there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another..
Plot: Follows a woman’s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.
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A life of pain, sorrow and misfortune !!!
‘The Life of Oharu’ is not an easy film to watch. There is barely even a fleeting moment of joy/happiness and towards the end, the viewer will find himself/herself getting really angry and outraged by the unthinkable oppression and atrocities and engulf our titular protagonist. Mizoguchi’s sympathetic treatment of Oharu compels the viewer to feel beaten down and horrified by Oharu’s miserable plight.

The long line of tragedies in Oharu’s life gets triggered by her decision to fall in love with Katsunosuke(played by the legendary Toshirô Mifune), a man of lower social standing. This element of forbidden love was also present in the previous Mizoguchi film that I watched namely ‘The Story of Last Chrysanthemum’. The story arc of Otoku in that film to a some extent resembles the arc of Oharu in this one in terms of the mental and physical torture that they are both subjected to. Oharu makes an effort to conform to society’s deplorable expectations, but even then gets nothing to show for it and gets discarded. This is because once she falls in social standing and gets sold off by her family, she ceases to be a human being in the eyes of society. There is a lot of references to trade and business in ‘The Life of Oharu’ which is relevant because Oharu over the course of her life becomes nothing more than a commodity to be sold from one customer to the next in the patriarchal society of 17th century Japan.

Mizoguchi technical mastery is again on show in ‘The Life of Oharu’. Some of the long takes and extended tracking shots are truly remarkable. Mizoguchi had the ability to suggest a plethora of things like passage of time, a change in mood, etc. with one little pan movement of the camera or with just the camera placement and those features are on show here too. The interior sets are beautifully designed and the haunting music by Ichirō Saitō is used craftily from time to time to set/change the mood. Kinuyo Tanaka has to be admired for lending the sympathy inducing tender innocence to Oharu. Her performance in the scenes depicting the later stages of Oharu’s life is jaw-dropping in its authenticity and humanity.

To conclude, I have to reiterate that ‘The Life of Oharu’ is not for everyone. One has to be in a specific mood to be able to endure the emotionally crushing narrative and storytelling of the film. But having said that, I still believe that it needs to be watched as Oharu represents numerous women(of Japan and beyond) in history and present times whose lives were and are still getting destroyed due to an oppressive society which denigrates women. It is said that Mizoguchi’s obsession with capturing the misery of women in the face of oppression had its roots in his own childhood as his own sister who raised him was sold by their father. One can sense a personal grief, a personal intimacy in the style of storytelling in this particular film. Highly Recommended.

Review By: avik-basu1889
Why Did I Wait To See This?
I finally saw Life of Oharu at the Ontario Cinematheque in Toronto last night and what an amazing film it was.

I don’t know why I held out on Mizoguchi for so long. I think it’s because I watched a lot of Ozu in the day and expected more of the same heavily restrained, obliquely symbolic style which is often as alienating as it is inventive. I couldn’t have been further off the mark. Mizoguchi’s style is fluid and assured like Hitchcock and Bresson. He also injects a warmth of spirit and shows a genuine interest in storytelling which is often absent in much of Ozu’s ouevre.

The Story of Oharu is a treatise on how women are economically exploited in a patriarchal society. This is probably one of the greatest ‘women’s films’ ever made. It ranks above ‘Breaking The Waves’ and Sirk’s ‘Imitation of Life’. No small feat!! If you like stories that actually say something about the world in which we live, I would strongly recommend this film. It’s a masterpiece of world cinema. I am definitely going to see more Mizoguchi.

Review By: chris-2512

Other Information:

Original Title 西鶴一代女
Release Date 1952-04-17
Release Year 1952

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 28 min (148 min), 2 hr 13 min (133 min) (USA), 2 hr 17 min (137 min) (Blu-ray)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer Saikaku Ihara, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda
Actors Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Country Japan
Awards 2 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Life of Oharu 1952 123movies
The Life of Oharu 1952 123movies
Original title 西鶴一代女
TMDb Rating 7.951 142 votes

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