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Watched
The Life of Oharu (1952) last night. Excellent film. About a very beautiful and virtuous sengoku-era courtesan who falls into misfortune and becomes a streetwalker. Her story is told from that position in time.
For falling in love with Toshiro Mifune's character, a lowborn retainer, she is exiled from her post at the imperial palace and her lover loses his head. Despite her nobility and exceptional past, she has trouble finding her way.
Her beauty, virtue which none will believe, and past as a courtesan make her a target for the unkindness of men and women all indulging their sexual fantasies and little petty-tyrannies, never believing that a beautiful woman could suffer truly in the world. Possessing great beauty, she finds no kindness among women, with even priestesses consumed with suspicion, devolving into sobbing jealousy. Men treat her ill in their own way. She makes her way, looking always for true and virtuous love, deeper into ruin until her grandest betrayal.
It's a really excellent take on genuine femininity, what I would call a feminist film if I didn't think such a designation poisonous. Everyone should watch it, especially those who can't find kindness in them for exceptional feminine souls. (!)