An Osaka Story Explained

An Osaka Story
Director:	Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Producer:	Masaichi Nagata
Music:	Akira Ifukube
Cinematography:	Kohei Sugiyama
Editing:	Shigeo Nishida
Studio:	Daiei Film
Distributor:	Daiei Film
Runtime:	96 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1957 Japanese historical drama film directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura. 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.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3]

External links

• • Web site: 大阪物語 (Osaka Monogatari) . Raizofan.net . ja . 6 June 2022.

Notes and References

1. Book: Jacoby, Alexander . 2008 . Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day . Berkeley . Stone Bridge Press . 367 . 978-1-933330-53-2.
2. Book: Anderson . Joseph L. . Richie . Donald . 1959 . The Japanese Film – Art & Industry . Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo . Charles E. Tuttle Company . 275.
3. Web site: Two Masters of Japanese Cinema: Kaneto Shindo & Kozaburo Yoshimura at BFI Southbank in June and July 2012 . Japan Foundation . 18 July 2023.