As a feminist director, Mizoguchi Kenji expressed the hardships and toughness of women in feudal society in most of his works. In this film, Mizoguchi Kenji interprets the suffering and tenacity of women to the extreme.
The film begins with the memories of A Chun, a middle-aged woman. When he was young, A Chun was a maid in a noble family. She fell into the arms of the samurai under the frantic pursuit of the inferior samurai. When the two were found cheating, A-Chun and her parents were expelled from the city, and the samurai was executed. Later, to inherit the incense, Lord Songping sent people to choose concubines everywhere. The beautiful A-Chun was accidentally chosen to be the concubine of Lord Matsudaira. The A-Chun family, who had just experienced great sadness, were instantly overjoyed, from the bottom to the top again. Soon, A Chun gave birth to a child for the lord, but after the newly born child was taken away by the lord's wife, A Chun suddenly fell ill. Due to illness, A-Chun was kicked out of the house by the big lord, and the child was gone. A Chun's family fell into hell again in an instant. The father had spent extravagantly at the big lord's house, but now he was kicked out. He blamed his daughter A-Chun and bought A-Chun into a brothel. In the brothel, A-Chun still maintained his dignity.
She did not want to To betray herself, the brothel owner begged her in every possible way, but she would not give in. Then the brothel owner suddenly changed his face to drive A Chun out of the brothel and let her live on the street. At this time, Chun suddenly changed his face and began to beg the brothel owner not to do this. Later, when the guest expressed his willingness to spend a lot of money to redeem A Chun and marry A Chun, the brothel owner changed his face again and begged A Chun... This scene of repeated changes between the strong and the weak is very hilarious and ironic. As a result, the man who wanted to redeem A Chun was a liar who specialized in counterfeiting money, and he was arrested immediately, and A Chun was also driven away by the brothel. Even in such a desolate setting, Chun still did not forget to give some money to the street performers. She can best understand this kind of desolate life. Later, A Chun was taken in by a family. The host was willing to find a partner for A Chun, but a visitor recognized A Chun and exposed her past as a prostitute.
The lady cut off A Chun's hair angrily, and the lustful man raped A Chun. Then A Chun married a man who didn't mind her past honesty, and the two opened a small shop together. But her husband was robbed and killed in the process of going out to buy a belt for her... In the end, Chun once again lived on the streets and became a prostitute. As she grew old and ugly, she was disliked by passing men and was characterized by a group of men. insult. Occasionally, she saw her son, who had become a lord, on the street. A-Chun struggled to find and run towards her son. This was her last hope. But the film did not tell the audience whether A Chun saw his son. In the end, the old A Chun appeared alone in the dark and begged a strange family, but was rejected. .. Mizoguchi Kenji showed A Chun's terrible life in this film. It is still the signature of one scene, one mirror, a large number of sports, full-length long shots, and single-scene multi-character scheduling. Although the plot design is too dramatic to be deliberate and overdone, the revelation of the status and injustice of women in the feudal era is still mighty.
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