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Miss Oyu(1951)
Status: Released
Date: 1951-06-22
72%
57 Votes
Time: 1h 34m
Overview:
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Miss Oyu
Top 10 Billed Cast
田中絹代
Oyû Kayukawa
乙羽信子
Shizu
堀雄二
Shinnosuke Seribashi
平井岐代子
Osumi
柳永二郎
Eitaro
進藤英太郎
Kusaemon
小林加奈枝
Nanny
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