History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (movie)
にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活- User score: 6
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Shōhei Imamura
- Production companies: Nihon Eiga Shinsha
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Release date: 6/3/1970
- Run time: 105 min.
Movie description
Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)
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