Miss Oyu (1951)

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

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.

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Oyû Kayukawa

Nobuko Otowa

Shizu

Yūji Hori

Shinnosuke Seribashi

Kiyoko Hirai

Osumi

Reiko Kongō

Otsugi Kayukawa

Eijirō Yanagi

Eitaro

Eitarō Shindō

Kusaemon

Kanae Kobayashi

Nanny

Fumihiko Yokoyama

Book-keeper

Jun Fujikawa

Book-keeper