Naniwa erejî – Osaka Elegy (1936) Criterion Collection
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Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 72min | 336MB
Genre: Drama | IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (503 users)
DVDRip - TinyBearDs | MKV | 640 x 480 | x264 600kbps 23.976fps | AAC 48kbps 1CH
Language: Japanese | Subtitle: English Included | 72min | 336MB
Genre: Drama | IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (503 users)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father's debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. She also sends money to her brother Hiroshi to pay his university tuition, but her father intercepts it. She tricks Mr. Fujino into giving her money so that she can marry her boyfriend Nishimura, but Fujino calls in the police.
Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women:
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Sisters Of The Gion (1936)
Women Of The Night (1948)
Street Of Shame (1956)
An IMDb Review: Lamentations of a poetScreenshots:
It was this film alone that drove me into an intense obsession with cinema. Mizoguchi is the great Japanese master, and Osaka Elegy reveals his genius. From his long take compositions that are taxed with complexity and tension, to his ambigious depictions of character, I felt like I had grown after I had seen this film. Notice the national allegory at the film's conclusion, a confused and lonely Japan. And his inconclusive final shot taken many years before the well known 400 Blows. The devastating melodrama is not undercut by any cinematic manipulation. I highly recommend this to any lover of the cinematic medium. Also, I am a sucker for self-reflexive Kabuki theater sequences…