The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)
In the midst of the silence of old age, a woman looks back at her life full of wounds. In the past, she was a lady in the Kyoto palace who fell in love with a man from a lower caste—a sin that destroyed everything. Banished with his family, he is thrown into a cruel world, where his every step is haunted by betrayal and bitterness. The story is a tragedy about the price of love and its inevitable destruction. Who will hear his cries now?