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Osaka Elegy (DVDrip - 1936)

-浪華悲歌 Naniwa erejî -

Genre :Drama | Criterion collection | rapidshare/file-factory

Shot in only 20 days during the beginning of war, Kenji Mizoguchi presents a poignant and caustic tale of obedience, duty, and the inequity of a patriarchal society in Osaka Elegy. Similar to Robert Bresson's A Gentle Woman and L'Argent, the repeated imagery of transactions reflects the devaluation of moral dignity, as money becomes a convenient surrogate for human interaction. A critical and popular triumph, Osaka Elegy established Mizoguchi as one of Japan’s major filmmakers. The director's often-used leading actress Isuzu Yamada stars as Ayoko, a switchboard operator trapped in a compromising, ruinous relationship with her boss to help support her wastrel father. With its fluid cinematography and deft storytelling, Osaka Elegy ushered in a new era of sound melodrama for Mizoguchi.

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Director Kenji Mizoguchi had been making films for roughly 15 years before beginning to find his voice in the late 1930s with films like this stark portrayal of a young woman living in a male cul-de-sac, now cited by Japanese critics as a landmark in the introduction of realism into Japanese films. Set in Osaka, well-known to the Japanese for its obssession with commerce, the film stars Isuzu Yamada as Ayako Murai, an operator at a small telephone company, who is engaged to Susumu Nishimura (Kensaku Hara), a co-worker who is strangely unconcerned that she must continually fend off the advances of her wealthy boss, Sonosuke Asai (Benkei Shiganoya). At home, her querulous, alcoholic father has incurred a huge debt which threatens to drive the family into bankruptcy, and after a fierce argument with Ayako, he throws her out of the house. With nowhere else to turn, she agrees to become Asai's mistress, and he sets her up in an expensive apartment. Although she pays off her father's debt and finances her brother's schooling, effectively supporting her entire family, they hypocritically ostracize her for what she has become. Yamada is riveting in this devastating study of men's exploitation of women. The director's typically evocative compositions frequently frame Ayako in close-up, emphasizing the virtual imprisonment. - - Rotten tomatoes

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Tips :

To watch on PC with softcoded subtitle:

To burn AVI to DVD with softcoded subtitle : ConvertXtoDVD ( pls use the search function in avaxhome ;-))

Tips to watch subtitle .SUB and .IDX format :

VLC Media Player:

1. Keep all the files (.avi, .sub & .idx) in the same folder

2. Play normally with VLC media player , go to VIDEO on top of VLC and choose SUBTITLE TRACK at the dropdown menu and select the appropriate subtitle .

ConverXtoDVD:

1. “Add” the .AVI file from the movie folder into the ConvertXtoDVD (the .IDX and .SUB file extensions should follow automatically providing all of them have the same exact file name). For non techie : FILE-NAME.FILE-EXTENSION

2. “Convert” and “Burn” normally

3. Use the button on your DVD or the remote control to select the appropriate subtitle for your viewing.

NOTE : More Kenji Mizoguchi’s masterpieces are available in AvaxHome video library through the generosity of our friend, Scalisto.

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