JAPAN · 1951

Miss Oyu

Kenji Mizoguchi
Japanese Golden Age forbidden love family duty social convention sacrifice widow status
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Synopsis

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.

Year1951
CountryJapan
DirectorKenji Mizoguchi
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