Miss Oyu(お遊さま)
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Japan · 1951
1h 34m
Director Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yûji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai
Genre Drama
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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.
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