Reviews for The Life of Oharu

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7.9 / 10 2h 16min

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

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Review by user79093tk5w1u

A life of pain, sorrow and misfortune !!!

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Review by user5447hsw31r2

"The morning's pretty face, is a corpse by evening"

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Review by user54xb8gsl3z

Bleak yet masterful character study

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Review by DaringDeer

A great portrait of 17th century Japanese society

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Review by user974gtpm4nb7

Contempt, Disregard and Injustice in Feudal Japan

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Review by user471hhg6vfdp

Mizoguchi Explores the Darker Side of Being a Samurai

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Review by user55pthomdi3

A painful saga of a woman's uneasy life filled with the everlasting chain of tragedies.

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Review by user7171fiv4pcu

The Exploitation Of Women In 17th Century Japan.

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Review by user316gnrjm3ok

Melodrama on the surface, critique on the hypocrisy of society (men) underneath, just like Douglas Sirk

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Review by user36845mkd20c

We don't have the right to love one another

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Review by user587k9ntdh1t

Depth to the message and solid film-making, but rather bleak

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Review by user2080myq4fix

more heartbreak for the souls of women in suffering for Mizoguchi - and no less than his other great films

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Review by OceanicOwl

THE LIFE OF OHARU (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952) ****

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Review by user2165sfeuopk

magical camera-work and immaculate direction

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