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Rating: 7 stars

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Japan Japanese fishing diver diving tokyo geisha something weird nudity

All movies seen on 03/05/2016

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Violated Paradise (1963)

Directed by Marion Gering

Drama | Romance | Documentary

Overview

A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

Length 68 minutes

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Interesting blend of narrative and documentary telling the story of a young woman that goes from a small village to Tokyo, becomes a geisha, falls in love then returns to a small village to be a pearl diver. What I love is the contrast between old and modern Japan. The tradition and customs along side the western influences is presented very well here. The nudity is part of daily life and not gratuitous.

I’ll probably watch this again before returning to Netflix or just buy it if it’s cheap. It’s a nice artifact of a time when old and new were merging post-war.

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