An Osaka Story | |
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Directed by | Kōzaburō Yoshimura |
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Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
Cinematography | Kohei Sugiyama |
Edited by | Shigeo Nishida |
Music by | Akira Ifukube |
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Distributed by | Daiei Film |
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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]
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]