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The First Generation of Nakanishi

The First Generation of Nakanishi

Drama

Kenji Mizoguchi

Tanaka Kinuyo, Yamane Toshiko, Mifune Toshiro, Sugai Ichiro, Matsuura Chikuhi, Tsuru Kiyoko, Konoe Toshiaki

1952

Japan

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Completed

Japanese

148 minutes

2025-02-20 02:56:52

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This film (drama)Also known as西鶴一代女,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1952Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese,Current Douban rating8.3(For reference only)。
Under the night sky, A-Chun (played by Tanaka Kinuyo), a prostitute over fifty, wanders the streets. After entering a temple, she reminisces about her tumultuous and tragic past. In her youth, A-Chun was a maid in a noble household. She fell in love with a low-ranking samurai, Katsunosuke, and their affair was discovered. A-Chun and her parents were thrust out of the city, while Katsunosuke was executed. The Matsudaira lord, seeking to continue his lineage, sent people out to choose concubines. The beautiful A-Chun was selected as the lord's mistress. Soon, she gave birth to a son. The Matsudaira family rejoiced, believing A-Chun would settle down. However, the legal wife became very jealous of A-Chun, leading the Matsudaira family to send her back home on the pretext that she was charming the lord. To repay debts, A-Chun's father sold her to a brothel. A wealthy customer wanted to redeem A-Chun, but he turned out to be a counterfeiter and was promptly arrested, leaving A-Chun expelled from the brothel. After undergoing various hardships, A-Chun ultimately found herself destitute on the streets. In her poverty and illness, she learns that her son has become a lord...