OSAKA ELEGY (Naniwa Ereji) (1936) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Kenji Nizoguchi

Written by - Tadashi Fujiwara, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda (based on a story by Saburo Okada)

Starring - Iasuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, Chiyoko Ogura

"A young girl becomes a mistress to wealthy men sacrificing her love life and happiness to financially help her family without letting them know. Regarded as the film which introduced realism to Japanese cinema, with Osaka Elegy Mizoguchi also never makes the mistake of falling into any preachy clichés and makes good use of photography to represent the woman’s distress and virtual imprisonment in what is also an example of early feminist cinema."

Drama, Japan