The life of Oharu
By: producers, Hideo Koi, Kenji Mizoguchi ; screenplay, Yoshikata Yoda, Kenji Mizoguchi ; director, Kenji Mizoguchi
Contributors: Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977, actor; Matsuura, Tsukie, actor; Sugai, Ichir, 1907-1973, actor; Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693
Edition: Special edition, high definition.
Series: Criterion collection : -- 664; Criterion collection -- 664.
Published: 2013
Language: jpn
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Drama; Women; Prostitutes; Social conditions; History; Film adaptations; Social classes
Other titles: Saikaku ichidai onna (Motion picture); Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka.; Ichidai onna.
Description: A portrait of a woman victimized by the strictures of seventeenth-century feudal Japanese society, from her beginnings as the daughter of a samurai and ending up as a prostitute.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.

Based on the novel "Kshoku ichidai onna" by Saikaku Ihara.

Features: new audio commentary for the opening of the movie by film scholar Dudley Andrew; Mizoguchi's "Art and the demimonde," an illustrated audio essay featuring Andrew; "The travels of Kinuyo Tanaka," a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama documenting the actor's 1949 goodwill tour of the United States; new English subtitle translation; booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez.

Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichir Sugai, Toshir Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

Blu-ray disc, PCM mono, wide screen (1.37:1).

For private home use only.

In Japanese with English subtitles.