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Nishitsuru first woman (also known as The Life of Oharu) is a 1952 New Toho film,Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

## Plot

There was a prostitute 's spring, in which she hides old ugly with thick makeup at a temple on the outskirts of Nara . Spring, when he entered the Rakan-do, remembered the faces of the men he had been involved with until he saw various Buddha statues.

A teenage spring who worked at the Imperial Palace was found by an official when he was taken to an inn by Katsunosuke, a young party of a prince who had long been thinking about spring. In spring, both parents were exiled and Katsunosuke was decapitated . Spring, who was chasing the city and lived with his parents, was found in the Matsudaira family who had been looking for a side room for his master who was still immortal . Happily between the lord heir 's your spring provided. However, love to deeper of jealousy, had been just returned to the parents' home and obsolete.

In the spring, his father, who was enthusiastic about money, sold him to Guo in Shimabara and became a tayu. One day, the countryside, who scattered gold in Guo, looked at her and said she wanted to redeem her. Although he decided to think of himself in the spring, he was actually made up of counterfeit money and was caught by an officer who had stepped in. Spring leaves Kasabaya and becomes a maid maiden, but this time she is jealous of Kabei's wife, Wasa, and is kicked out, because Sasaya's guest, Taburo Hishiya, knew her predecessor.

After returning to his parents' house, Oharu married a good and hard worker, Ogiya, and finally seemed to have a modest but happy life. You will be killed and you will leave the shop indiscriminately. Spring was decided to look after the world and take care of the elder's Myokai, but I was seen in Myokai when I was about to be raped by Sasaya's Daibunto Shohei who came to collect debts, so I saw the temple. I've been kicked out.

When Oharu encounters Bunyoshi, who was the leader of Kabei, he acts with him, but it turns out that Bunyoshi stole goods from the store because of Spring, and he is caught in Kuwana . Then, in spring, she became a woman who begged while playing the shamisen. A place where fallen too hungry two people who has cared streetwalker invited to, finally your spring but will be dropping himself down to the prostitute, fall down in Tata' years of overwork.

My mom's friend who was looking for spring appeared there, and the Matsudaira family's palace died, and the young palace succeeded, so I told them that they would be able to live together. The executives, who had a problem that Spring had dropped into a whore, allowed only a glance at the face of his son, Wakanoden, and tried to imprison her. The only spring that escaped after seeing a gap was on a lonely pilgrimage.

## Cast

* Spring: Kinyo Tanaka
* Wife: Hisako Yamane
* Katsunosuke: Toshiro Mifune
* Yakichi Ogiya: Shigekichi Uno
* Spring Father Shinzaemon: Ichiro Sugai
* Kabei Sasaya: Eitaro Shindo
* Bunkichi Sasaya: Akira Oizumi
* Kikukoji: Masao Shimizu
* Taisaburo Hishiya: Daisuke Kato
* Yataemon Isobe: Toranosuke Ogawa
* Countryside: Eijiro Yanagi
* Office Yoshioka: Yuriko Hamada
* Waiting Woman Iwahashi: Haruyo Ichikawa
* Office Kuzui: Komako Hara
* Old Nunkai: Kikue Mohri
* Sasaya wife Osa: Sadako Sawamura
* Harutaka Matsudaira: Toshiaki Konoe
* Executive Manabe Kinemon: Shinobu Araki
* Jinzaemon Tashiro: Yukichi Ueshiro
* Maruya Master Nanaeemon: Kinnosuke Takamatsu
* Hisashi Shinozaki: Hiro Mizuno
* Sahei's Big Ban Jihei: Shiga Kojike Benkei
* Executive officer: Eizaburo Sakauchi
* Old man: Aizo Tamashima
* Maruya's Guard: Sumao Ishihara
* Costume store: Yuhei Yokoyama
* Bear: Yaeko Izumo
* Osugi: Kiyoko Hirai
* Osen: Reiko Kongo
* Machion'nayuzukaki: Kusajima Keiko
* Nakajuku hostess : Kiyoko Tsuji
* Ogiya customer: Wakako Kunitomo
* Beggar: Junko Kinugasa
* Maruya's Nakai: Kimie Hayashi
* Maruya's Nakadai Ota: Hisano Yamato
* With my spring mother: Tsunee Matsuura

## Staff

* Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
* Writer: Yoshinori Yoda
* Production: Hideo Koi
* Based on Nishizuru Ihara's " Koshiki Ichijo Onna "
* Photo: Yoshimi Hirano
* Music: Ichiro Saito
* Art: Hiroshi Mizutani
* Lighting: Fujibayashi Kou
* Recording: Masakazu Kamiya
* Supervision: Isamu Yoshii
* Edit: Toshio Goto
* Assistant Director: Seiichiro Uchikawa
* Choreography: Yachiyo Inoue

## Awards

* 1952: Venice International Film Festival International Award
* 1953
	+ The 26th Kinema Junpo Best Ten 9th place
	+ 7th Mainichi Film Competition Music Award ( Ichiro Saito )

## Titles

* The Life of Oharu (Original Worldwide release title)
* Nishitsuru first woman (Original Japanese title)