Miss Oyu

1951 · directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Rating

74/100

Hit

no

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.

Miss Oyu (1951), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, rates 74/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Kinuyo Tanaka
• Nobuko Otowa
• Yūji Hori
• Kiyoko Hirai
• Reiko Kongō
• Eijirō Yanagi
• Eitarō Shindō
• Kanae Kobayashi
• Fumihiko Yokoyama
• Jun Fujikawa

Crew

• Kazuo Miyagawa — Director of Photography
• Mitsuzō Miyata — Editor
• Fumio Hayasaka — Original Music Composer
• Yoshikata Yoda — Screenplay

More from Kenji Mizoguchi

1. Ugetsu (1953) — 100/100 · hit
2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) — 89/100 · hit
3. The Life of Oharu (1952) — 88/100 · hit
4. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) — 87/100 · hit
5. A Geisha (1953) — 86/100 · hit
6. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) — 84/100 · hit

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