The Life of O-Haru [Oharu] (Four original photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film)

Kenji Mizoguchi (director, screenwriter); Toshiro Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichir Sugai, J kichi Uno (starring); Yoshikata Yoda (screenwriter); Saikaku Ihara (novel)

Published by Cinegate, London, 1975

About this Item

Four vintage studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film. Provenance stamps and cropping annotations on the versos. Based on Saikaku Ihara's 1686 collection of short stories, about a noblewoman who falls into ruin as a result of her affair with a lowly page. Among director Kenji Mizoguchi's finest films, an exploration of class, gender, and the search for dignity in seventeenth-century Japan. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 664. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000.

Seller Inventory # 164282

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life of O-Haru [Oharu] (Four original photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film)
• Publisher: Cinegate, London
• Publication Date: 1975
• Seller catalogs:
  • Japanese Cinema
  • Photographs
  • Films with Literary Sources
  • Film Still Photographs
  • 1950s Cinema