- HD 1080
- Runtime: 136m.
- Status: Released
- 0
- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
- Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirō Sugai, Hisako Yamane, Toshirō Mifune
- keywords: despair, courtesan, concubine, memory, prostitution, feudal lord, feudal japan, 17th century, life story
- Production_studio: Koi Productions, Shintoho Company, TOHO
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Life of Oharu is featured in the top rankings of 1952
- #4 in Top Drama Movies of 1952
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.