Japan
1936
71 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
Japanese
A critical and popular triumph, Osaka Elegy established Mizoguchi as one of Japan’s major filmmakers. The director’s often-used leading actress Isuzu Yamada stars as Ayako, a switchboard operator trapped in a compromising, ruinous relationship with her boss to help support her wastrel father. With its fluid cinematography and deft storytelling, Osaka Elegy ushered in a new era of sound melodrama for Mizoguchi.
| Ayako Murai | Isuzu Yamada |
| Sumiko Asai | Yoko Umemura |
| Sachiko Murai | Chiyoko Okura |
| Hiroshi Murai | Shinhachiro Asaka |
| Sonosuke Asai | Benkei Shiganoya |
| Yoshizo Fujino | Eitarô Shindô |
| Dr. Yoko | Kunio Tamura |
| Junzo Murai | Seiichi Takegawa |
| Inspector | Takashi Shimura |
| Director | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Producer | Masaichi Nagata |
| Original story | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Screenplay | Yoshikata Yoda |
| Cinematography | Minoru Miki |
| Editing | Tatsuko Sakane |
| Music | Koichi Takagi |
The ongoing rediscovery of the multitude of masterworks that made up the career of Kenji Mizoguchi continues with the release of Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women. The set, writes Dennis Lim in the http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-secondlook19-2008oct19...
Though he had been directing films since the silent era, collaborating with many different film studios in various genres, Kenji Mizoguchi didn’t become an international sensation until after the Second World War, benefiting, as did his compatriot Akira Kurosawa, from a new fascination with Japan’s...
Kenji Mizoguchi departed abruptly from his earlier sentimental films into a world of acute realism with Osaka Elegy. Boldly critiquing the position of women in contemporary Japanese society, the film examines a young woman’s victimization and descent into prostitution. Together, Mizoguchi’s...
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