Osaka Elegy

1936 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2781 2.8K

mistress embezzlement

Plot summary

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi Photo
Kenji Mizoguchi

Top cast

Isuzu Yamada Photo
Isuzu Yamada as Ayako Murai
Eitarô Shindô Photo
Eitarô Shindô as Yoshizo Fujino
Yôko Umemura Photo
Yôko Umemura as Sumiko Asai
Kensaku Hara Photo
Kensaku Hara as Susumu Nishimura
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657.57 MB
968*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 1
1.19 GB
1440*1072
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10

An interesting look into 1930s urban mores...

...with a plot out of Precode Hollywood and frequent jazz music to match. A pretty young switchboard operator reluctantly decides to become the mistress of her boss so she can help her financially-strapped father who had embezzled company funds for an investment that went bad, and her college-student brother who needs his tuition paid. Of course she is ostracized from the family for her immorality without giving her the chance to explain how they got their money. Various other relationships and subplots also come into play. This one has nicely-plotted character dynamics, good performances, and beautiful cinematography.
Reviewed by Uriah43 7 / 10

A Good Japanese Pre-World War 2 Movie

This film begins with a relatively wealthy--but extremely grouchy--old man by the name of "Sonosuke Asai" (Benkei Shiganoya) harping on all those around him for very minor issues. It's during this time that his wife "Sumiko" (Yôko Umemura) sarcastically recommends that he gets himself a young mistress since he no longer finds her appealing. That being said, it just so happens that there is a young employee at his office named "Ayako Murai" (Isuzu Yamada) that he finds quite attractive and knowing that she is in desperate need of money due to a family matter offers her the unenviable position. In any case, faced with very little choice she reluctantly accepts his offer. Unfortunately, even though she tries to do what is best for her family, she soon discovers that she has lost the respect of everyone of any consequence to her. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I initially thought that this was a comedy as the first few scenes seemed rather light-hearted. But things change rather remarkably later on. On another note, it should be mentioned that silent films lasted a bit longer in Japan than most other industrialized nations and that this was one of the first pictures to utilize sound. Be that as it may, I thought that this was a pretty good movie and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.
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