An Osaka Story

An Osaka Story
An Osaka Story
Directed by	Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Written by	Yoshikata Yoda; Kenji Mizoguchi (story); Saikaku Ihara (story);
Produced by	Masaichi Nagata
Cinematography	Kohei Sugiyama
Edited by	Shigeo Nishida
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production; company	Daiei Film
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	6 March 1957 (Japan);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

An Osaka Story (大阪物語, Osaka Monogatari) is a 1957 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura.^[1]^[2] The film had originally been planned by Kenji Mizoguchi, who had adapted several stories by Saikaku Ihara into a script. After Mizoguchi's death, the project was assigned to Yoshimura.^[3]^[4]

Cast

Raizo Ichikawa as Keizaburō
Nakamura Ganjirō II as Nihei
Chieko Naniwa as Ofude
Kyōko Kagawa as Onatsu
Shintaro Katsu as Ichinosuke
Michiko Ono as Takino
Narutoshi Hayashi as Kichitarō
Tamao Nakamura as Ayagi
Eijirō Tōno as Gonzaemon Hoshino
Kyū Sazanka as Kawachiya

Legacy

An Osaka Story was screened at a 2012 retrospective on Kaneto Shindō and Kōzaburō Yoshimura in London, organised by the British Film Institute and the Japan Foundation.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b "大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 367. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.
^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company. p. 275.
^ "Two Masters of Japanese Cinema: Kaneto Shindo & Kozaburo Yoshimura at BFI Southbank in June and July 2012" (PDF). Japan Foundation. Retrieved 18 July 2023.

External links

An Osaka Story at IMDb
"大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari)". Raizofan.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022.

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[jmdb-1] "大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022.

[kinenote-2] "大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 June 2022.

[Jacoby-3] Jacoby, Alexander (2008). Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 367. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.

[Anderson-Richie-4] Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Japanese Film – Art & Industry. Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company. p. 275.

[5] "Two Masters of Japanese Cinema: Kaneto Shindo & Kozaburo Yoshimura at BFI Southbank in June and July 2012" (PDF). Japan Foundation. Retrieved 18 July 2023.

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