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Bookmark this pageOsaka Elegy (1936)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Mizoguchi's first collaboration with long-time screenwriting colleague Yoshikata Yoda tells of a company telephone operator who, out of a desire to help her impoverished father and student brother, embarks on an affair with her boss, with disastrous results. A tale of lecherous, exploitative businessmen, ungrateful families, and a feisty but self-sacrificing woman, with a savage sting in its tail, the film prefigures Mizoguchi's later work in its angry emphasis on double standards, its visual precision and its engaged but never preachy tone.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Producer: Masaichi Nagata
Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Seichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Okura, Shinpachiro Asaka, Benkei Shiganoya, Yoko Umemura full cast
Duration: 71 mins
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