| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1951 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Length: | 95 min |
| Country: | Japan |
| Cast: | Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, and Youi Hori |
| Credits: | Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. |
Synopsis: A crucial Mizoguchi, in that it marked the first collaboration between the director and the great cinematographer's Miyagawa, and also signalled a shift in Mizoguchi's themes, from those of "social justice" to "themes of passion, sacrifice, and transcendence" (Stephen L. Barr). Kinuyo Tanakais superb as Oyu, windowed before the age of twenty-one. When she rebuffs the advances of a wealthy young man, he marries her sister to ensure access to the widow. Their menage a trois causes scandal, and Oyu is banished from her family's house. "An exceptionally poigant melodrama" (Andrew Sarris) based on a Tanizaki novel, MISS OYU offers sequence after sequence of astonishing elegance, including one shot that lasts almost six minutes.
Japanese with English subtitles, bw.
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