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Oyuki, the Virgin

6.5

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Boule de Suif (Pyshka)

Original title

Maria no Oyuki

Year

1935

Running time

87 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Screenwriter

Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Tatsunosuke Takashima. Novel: Guy de Maupassant

Cast

Music

Kôichi Takagi

Cinematography

Minoru Miki (B&W)

Producer

Daiichi

Genre

Drama. Romance

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Guy de Maupassant Adaptations

Synopsis

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.

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Oyuki, the Virgin

1935

Kenji Mizoguchi

6.5

(105)