A Woman of Osaka

Name: A Woman of Osaka
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1940

Kenji Mizoguchi

marriage and devotion class difference sacrifice business and commerce jealousy and conflict

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Synopsis

When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays.

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