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The Life of Oharu

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The Life of Oharu (西鶴一代女; Saikaku Ichidai Onna) is a 1952 film by director Mizoguchi Kenji starring Tanaka Kinuyo as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyo (and mother of a later daimyo) who struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father.

Based off a novel by Ihara Saikaku.

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