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Miss Oyu (1951)

Miss Oyu (1951)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1951, June 22
Directors: Kenji Mizoguchi
Countries: Japan
Production: Daiei Film, Daiei Film
Cast: Kanae Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eijirō Yanagi, Shōzō Nanbu, Fumihiko Yokoyama, Jun Fujikawa, Reiko Kongō, Eitarō Shindō, Sōji Shibata, Midori Komatsu, Nobuko Otowa, Yūji Hori

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

sibling relationship death in childbirth japan