Miss Oyu
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1951-06-22
Runtime: 94 mins
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Drama, Romance
Original title: Miss Oyu
Production Companies: Daiei Film
Production Countries: Japan
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka
Nobuko Otowa
Yūji Hori
Kiyoko Hirai
Reiko Kongō
Eijirō Yanagi
Eitarō Shindō
Kanae Kobayashi
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Jun Fujikawa
Sōji Shibata
Inosuke Kuhara
Yoshiko Fujishiro
Shōzō Nanbu
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