Miss Oyu
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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.
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Cast
18 people
Kinuyo Tanaka
Oyû Kayukawa
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Nobuko Otowa
Shizu
Known for
Onibaba
The Naked Island
Yūji Hori
Shinnosuke Seribashi
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Kiyoko Hirai
Osumi
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Warning from Space
The Lady of Musashino
Yuji Horii
Shinnosuke Seribashi
Reiko Kongō
Otsugi Kayukawa
Also in
Sansho the Bailiff
Ugetsu
Eijirō Yanagi
Eitaro
Known for
The Tale of Zatoichi
The Idiot
Eitarō Shindō
Kusaemon
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Kanae Kobayashi
Nanny
Known for
In the Realm of the Senses
New Tale of Zatoichi
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Book-keeper
Known for
Ugetsu
Jun Fujikawa
Book-keeper
Known for
Anatahan
Irezumi
Sōji Shibata
Book-keeper
Also in
Sansho the Bailiff
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Kenji Mizoguchi Director · Yoshikata Yoda Screenplay Junichirō Tanizaki Author
First release June 22, 1951 · Produced in Japan · Production Daiei Pictures Kyoto Studio, Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Production
Daiei Film
Production
Daiei Pictures Kyoto Studio
Production
Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
お遊さま
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 22, 1951
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
November 30, 1983 · Theatrical
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