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Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute (1973)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
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Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute is a 1975 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It is a documentary on one of the Japanese “karayuki-san,” who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Many of these women were told that they were doing this to support their families because of the extreme poverty that the war left much of Japan to live in. Imamura focuses on a particular such woman who was sent to Malaysia and never returned to Japan. Joan Mellen, in The Waves at Genji’s Door, called this film, “Perhaps the most brilliant and feeling of Imamura’s fine documentaries.”
Length 75 minutes
Actors
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/10/2013 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 7.5 stars |
| (Average) 7.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
First of the three Imamura documentaries viewed today at Film Center. Imamura interviews a 74 year old woman Kikuyo who was smuggled out of Japan as a young girl and forced into prostitution. She’s quite charming as she tells her tale and takes him around the area where she lived and did her time.
I especially liked when they visited other elderly prostitutes and let them give their version of what happened to their lives. It’s an eye opener on a subject I knew nothing about prior to viewing. Very good.
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