Lady Oyu

IMDb link: 0043892
IMDb rating: 7.4 (2,092 votes)
Genres: Drama, Romance
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai and others

Release date: 1 May 1981
Release year: 1951
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: Japan
Keywords: husband wife relationship, beach, crying baby, baby, mizoguchi and tanaka, love, traditional costume, widower, rumor, heat stroke

Plot:

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, 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.

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