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My Love Burns

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Original title

Waga koi wa moenu (My Love Burns)aka

AKA

My Love Has Been Burning

Year

1949

Running time

96 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Screenwriter

Kaneto Shindô, Yoshikata Yoda. Novel: Kogo Noda

Cast

Music

Senji Ito

Cinematography

Tomotarô Nashiki, Kohei Sugiyama (B&W)

Producer

Shôchiku

Genre

Drama | Politics. Feminism. 19th Century

Synopsis

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights.

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My Love Burns

1949

Kenji Mizoguchi

6.9

(165)