Oyuki, the Virgin
1935·Japan·87 min.
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Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” (“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach). To this story Mizoguchi added some of his own elements. Maupassant’s original work, set during the Franco-Prussian War, is the story of a group of people who try to flee the battleground in a horsedrawn carriage. The bourgeois use the expression “lump of fat” to refer sarcastically to the prostitute who is riding along with them. When they are caught by the enemy, they offer to send her to the commander as a human sacrifice. This done, when they leave the battlefield the next day, all they do is censure her and call her vulgar.
DirectorKenji Mizoguchi
MusicKôichi Takagi
CinematographyMinoru Miki
CastKomako Hara·Eiji Nakano·Daijirô Natsukawa·Toichiro Negishi·Isuzu Yamada·Kinue Utagawa·Yôko Umemura·Keiji Oizumi·Arata Shibata·Shizuko Takizawa·Tadashi Torii·Kasuke KoizumiShow all
Original titleMaria no Oyuki