The Life of Oharu
Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama
December 13, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Among the most devastating of master director Kenji Mizoguchi’s portraits of fallen women, this finely wrought, small-gesture melodrama stars the infinitely touching Kinuyo Tanaka as a once-proud concubine whose tragic fate is governed by the callous whims of men.
Among the most sublimely devastating of master director Kenji Mizoguchi’s celebrated portraits of fallen women, The Life of Oharu stars the infinitely touching Kinuyo Tanaka as a once-proud concubine whose tragic fate is governed by the callous whims of men and the cruel jealousies of women as she slides into a life of prostitution in Edo-era Japan. Sensitive as always to the rigid social structures that subjugate his heroines, Mizoguchi offers a distinctly Japanese alternative to the operatic Sturm und Drang of Western weepies; this is finely wrought, small-gesture melodrama, in which the subtlest movement or camera angle is calibrated for maximum heartbreak effect.
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