Dudley Andrew on THE LIFE OF OHARU

This 2013 illustrated audio essay, written and narrated by film scholar Dudley Andrew, explores director Kenji Mizoguchi’s interest in the theater, art, and fiction of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan, and locates the roots of his idea for the adaptation THE LIFE OF OHARU in his second postwar film, UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN.