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Ayako Murai ([[Isuzu Yamada]]) is a young woman working as a telephone operator in |
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. |
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== Cast of Characters == |
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Revision as of 10:09, 4 May 2013
| Osaka Elegy | |
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 1936 Japanese movie poster featuring Isuzu Yamada | |
| Directed by | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Written by | Kenji Mizoguchi (Original Story) Yoshikata Yoda (Screenplay) |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Starring | Isuzu Yamada Seiichi Takegawa Chiyoko Okura |
| Cinematography | Minoru Miki |
| Edited by | Tatsuko Sakane |
| Music by | Kōichi Takagi |
| Distributed by | Shochiku[1] |
Release date | May 28, 1936 |
Running time | 71 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Osaka 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.
Plot
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.
Cast of Characters
- Ayako Murai... Isuzu Yamada
- Sumiko Asai... Yoko Umemura
- Sachiko Murai... Chiyoko Okura
- Hiroshi Murai... Shinpachiro Asaka
- Sonosuke Asai... Benkei Shiganoya
- Yoshizo Fujino... Eitarō Shindō
- Dr. Yoko... Kunio Tamura
- Junzo Murai... Seiichii Takekawa
- Nishimura... Kensaku Hara
- Inspector... Takashi Shimura
References
- ^ Template:Ja icon http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1936/bl002030.htm accessed 26 May 2009
External links
- Osaka Elegy at IMDb
- Template:Ja icon Osaka Elegy at the Japanese Movie Database
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