Synopsis
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
45 audience votes
Key crew
- Hajime TakaiwaWriter
- Seijun SuzukiDirector
- Naozumi YamamotoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tamio KawachiShinkichi Mikami
- Yumiko NogawaHarumi
- Isao TamagawaNarita
- Shoichi OzawaAkiyama
- Toshio SugiyamaTomoda
- Daizaburo HirataCast
- Tomiko IshiiYuriko
- Kotoe HatsuiTsuyuko
- Kazuko ImaiSachiko
- Tsutomu ShimomotoCast
- Kaku TakashinaMakita
- Eimei EsumiMachida
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Themes
japanprostitutechinabuddhismdesertionmanchuriahand grenaderemakesecond sino-japanese war (1937-45)prostitutionsoldierdesert