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Dudley Andrew on THE LIFE OF OHARU
The Life of Oharu
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18m
This 2013 illustrated audio essay, written and narrated by film scholar Dudley Andrew, explores director Kenji Mizoguchi’s interest in the theater, art, and fiction of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan, and locates the roots of his idea for the adaptation THE LIFE OF OHARU in his second postwar film, UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN.
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THE LIFE OF OHARU Commentary
Recorded in 2013, this commentary by film scholar Dudley Andrew plays over the first 28 minutes of THE LIFE OF OHARU.
