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Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, 1936) is a drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi — shot in the same year as Sisters of the Gion and together forming the double statement that defined his career.
Ayako works a telephone switchboard in Osaka. Her fiancé is listless, her father has embezzled company funds and faces prosecution, the family is out of options. She becomes the kept woman of her boss at a pharmaceutical firm to clear the debt. When the same situation returns for her brother's sake, she goes back under the same terms. The people she rescued repay her by cutting her off. Mizoguchi shoots in long, unbroken takes with no editorial sentiment — the weight of each transaction sits on screen exactly as long as it should. Isuzu Yamada plays Ayako without a single beat of self-pity. Stream Osaka Elegy (1936) online on iFILM.
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