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Osaka Elegy 
1936 Japanese movie posterDirected by Kenji Mizoguchi Produced by Masaichi Nagata Written by Kenji Mizoguchi (Original Story)
Yoshikata Yoda
(Screenplay)Starring Isuzu Yamada
Seiichi Takegawa
Chiyoko OkuraMusic by Kōichi Takagi Cinematography Minoru Miki Editing by Tatsuko Sakane Distributed by Shochiku[1] Release date(s) 
May 28, 1936Running 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.
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Plot
Ayako Murai (Isuzu Yamada) is a young woman working as a telephone operator in 1930's Osaka. In order to pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling ¥300, 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 Urai... Chiyako Okura
- Hiroshi Murai... Shinpachiro Asaka
- Sonosuke Asai... Benkei Shiganoya
- Yoshizo Fujino... Eitaro Shindo
- Dr. Yoko... Kunio Tamura
- Junzo Murai... Seiichii Takekawa
- Nishimura... Kensaku Hara
- Inspector... Takashi Shimura
References
- ^ (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1936/bl002030.htm accessed 26 May 2009
External links
- Osaka Elegy at the Internet Movie Database
- (Japanese) Osaka Elegy at the Japanese Movie Database
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