Kinuyo Tanaka
Oharu
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, and Oharu and her family were exiled. For Oharu there followed a life filled with one sorrow and humiliation after another.
Saikaku ichidai onna
Oharu
Tomo
Shinzaemon
Lady Matsudaira
Katsunosuke
Yakichi Ogiya
Kahe Sasaya
Fumikichi
Kikuoji
Tasaburo Hishiya
Yoshioka
Counterfeiter
Otsubone Kuzui
Myokai, the old nun
Sasaya's wife Owasa
Lord Harutaka Matsudaira
Landlady
Sodegaki
Jihei
Old Man
Director
