Miss Oyu (1951)

Name: Miss Oyu
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1951-06-22
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yūji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kongō

DramaRomance

94 min

Plot Summary

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.