35mm

An Osaka Story

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

An economic tragicomedy originally meant to be the final project of Kenji Mizoguchi, this wry, unsentimental parable on the perils of capitalism follows a peasant family on their journey to deranging wealth.

DIRECTOR
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
YEAR
1957
COUNTRY
Japan
RUNTIME
96 minutes
LANGUAGE
Japanese with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm

An economic tragicomedy adapted from a story by the Edo-era satirist Ihara Saikaku, this film was originally meant to be the final project of Kenji Mizoguchi, to whom Kōzaburō Yoshimura had been compared throughout his career. In Yoshimura’s hands, An Osaka Story is a wry, humorous, and unsentimental parable on the perils of capitalism, following the schemes and blowups of a peasant family on their journey to ill-gotten, deranging wealth. Print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan.

An Osaka Story
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An Osaka Story
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