Osaka Elegy
is a 1936 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It forms a diptych with Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion which shares much of the same cast and production team, and is considered an early masterpiece in the director's career.
Plot
Sonosuke Asai, head of the Asai Drug Company, lives in an unhappy marriage with his wife Sumiko. While he treats the servants disdainfully, Sumiko reminds him that he owes his position to her family which he married into. He makes advances to one of his employees, telephone operator Ayako, which the young woman fends off. After work, Ayako discusses this with her colleague and boyfriend Susumu, complaining that he doesn't help her collecting the 300 yen which her father embezzled from his employer and is forced to pay back.
More details
| author | Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshikata Yoda |
|---|---|
| director | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| editor | Tazuko Sakane |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | beauty salon bunraku collect force id married new home police station shopping mall telephone operator the 300 unhappy marriage young woman |
| producer | Masaichi Nagata |
| publisher | Shochiku |
| theme | feminist |