Osaka Elegy

Osaka Elegy , Naniwa erejii? originally Naniwa Elegy is a 1936 Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Mizoguchi considered the film his first serious effort as a director, and it was also his first commercial and critical success in Japan. Osaka Elegy is often considered a companion piece to Mizoguchis next film, Sisters of the Gion, which was released the same year and featured much the same cast and crew.

Sumiko Asai Yoko Umemura is the owner of the Asai Drug Company. He is unhappily married with a nagging wife, who unashamedly visits the theatre with his male colleagues. Mr Asai tries to get one of his employees, telephone operator Ayako Murai Isuzu Yamada, to meet him for dinner. She discusses this after work with a male colleague and apparently boyfriend, Mr Nishimura, revealing that her father is in serious difficulties unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling 300 yen.After an argument at home she decides to take up Mr Asais offer and become his mistress. She quits her job and lives alone in a modern apartment block, bored and waiting for Mr Asai. When they attend a Bunraku puppet show, Dr Yoko calls them out. His wife greets them, furious that they are having an affair. However, Mr Fujino, a business acquaintance of Asai intervenes, lying that Ayako was his date, not Asais. ........

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