Drama ·Romance · Japan · 1951 · 1h 34m

Miss Oyu

お遊さま

Director

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka as Oyû Kayukawa Nobuko Otowa as Shizu Yūji Hori as Shinnosuke Seribashi Kiyoko Hirai as Osumi Reiko Kongō as Otsugi Kayukawa Eijirō Yanagi as Eitaro

Crew

Kazuo Miyagawa — Director of Photography Mitsuzō Miyata — Editor Fumio Hayasaka — Original Music Composer Yoshikata Yoda — Screenplay Junichirō Tanizaki — Novel Masaichi Nagata — Producer

Synopsis

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

Kenji Mizoguchi Director Kazuo Miyagawa Director of Photography Mitsuzō Miyata Editor Fumio Hayasaka Original Music Composer Yoshikata Yoda Screenplay Junichirō Tanizaki Novel Masaichi Nagata Producer Tadaoto Kainoshō Costume Design Shima Yoshizane Costume Design

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