The Life of O-Haru [Oharu]

London: Cinegate, Circa 1975. Four vintage studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film. Provenance stamps and layout annotations on the versos.

Based on Saikaku Ihara's 1686 collection of short stories, about a noblewoman who falls into ruin as a result of her affair with a lowly page. Among director Kenji Mizoguchi's finest films, an exploration of class, gender, and the search for dignity in seventeenth-century Japan.

10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 664. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #164282]