Memorial Hall Library

The life of Oharu, Janus Films ; Toho Company, Ltd. ; a Shintoho-Koi coproduction ; produced by Hideo Koi ; screenplay by Kenji Mizoguchi and Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952Based on a novel by Saikaku IharaSpecial features: Dudley Andrew on The life of Oharu: Mizoguchi's art and the Demimonde (an illustrated audio essay featuring Andrew), Commentary by Dudley Andrew; The travels of Kinuyo Tanaka (a 2009 film by Koko Kajiyama documenting Tanaka's 1949 goodwill tour of the United States). Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Gilberto Perez

Midwest Tape

multicolored

monaural

Story editor, Isamu Yoshii ; cinematography by Yoshimi Hirano ; musical director, Ichiro Saito ; production design, Hiroshi Mizutani

other

9781604657395

videodisc

Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane, Toshiro Mifune, Jukichi Uno, Ichiro Sugai, Eitaro Shindo, Akira Ooizumi, Masao Shimizu, Daisuke Kato, Toranosuke Ogawa, Eijiro Yanagi, Yuriko Hamada, Haruyo Ichikawa, Komako Hara, Kikue Mouri, Sadako Sawamura, Toshiaki Konoe, Kinnosuke Takamatsu, Benkei Shiganoya, Unpei Yokoyama, Tsukie Matsuura

1 videodisc (136 min.), sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet ([20] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)

sound on medium

videodisc

(Sirsi) 1440213(OCoLC)844084525

DVD; NTSC; region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; PCM mono

715515107419

CC2276D -- The Criterion Collection

DVD