Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Kinuyo Tanaka recalls her life of misery from the perspective of an aging prostitute. She falls in love at a young age with a man below her social standing, leading to his death and her, and her family's, banishment. She is then picked to bear the child of a local warlord and promised riches, but is thrown out after giving birth and once again left with nothing. The pattern is repeated throughout her life. It was a bit episodic for my tastes, and tended to wallow in self pity, but with a near-continuous soundtrack of haunting classical Japanese music and Mizoguchi's eye for period detail, one of the more bearable Japanese melodramas.
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