---
title: 'The Life of Oharu (1952)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kenji Mizoguchi'
released: '1952-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 148
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-life-of-oharu-1952'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045112/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Life of Oharu (1952)

1952 · 148 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 西鶴一代女

## Synopsis

The Life of Oharu  is a 1952 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda is based on various stories from Saikaku Ihara's 1686 work The Life of an Amorous Woman. Kinuyo Tanaka stars as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō who struggles to escape the stigma of having been forced into prostitution by her father.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kenji Mizoguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-mizoguchi)
- **Producer:** [Kenji Mizoguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-mizoguchi)
- **Screenplay:** [Ihara Saikaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/ihara-saikaku), [Yoshikata Yoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshikata-yoda)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ichirō Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-saito)
- **Editor:** [Toshio Gotō](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshio-goto)

## Cast

- [Komako Hara](https://cinepixo.com/people/komako-hara)
- [Noriko Sengoku](https://cinepixo.com/people/noriko-sengoku)
- [Sadako Sawamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/sadako-sawamura)
- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Masao Shimizu](https://cinepixo.com/people/masao-shimizu)
- [Eijirō Yanagi](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-yanagi)
- [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinuyo-tanaka)
- [Haruyo Ichikawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruyo-ichikawa)
- [Jūkichi Uno](https://cinepixo.com/people/jukichi-uno)
- [Daisuke Katō](https://cinepixo.com/people/daisuke-kato)
- [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune)
- [Eitarō Shindō](https://cinepixo.com/people/eitaro-shindo)
- [Chieko Higashiyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/chieko-higashiyama)
- [Ichirō Sugai](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-sugai)

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