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Life Of Oharu (1952) - (Movie Clip) I'm Not A Prostitute!

In flashback, Kinuyo Tanaka, the title character, during her time as a courtesan to the Japanese imperial court, gets busted with her lower class lover Inosuke (Toshiro Mifune), then with her parents (Tsuke Matsuura, Ichiro Sugai) being banished, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Life Of Oharu,1952.

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