Story of a Prostitute

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1965-02-27

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.

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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.

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1965-02-27

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Seijun Suzuki

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Drama

Romance

War

Language

日本語

Production

Nikkatsu Corporation

Story of a Prostitute

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Tamio Kawachi

Yumiko Nogawa

Isao Tamagawa

Shoichi Ozawa

Toshio Sugiyama

Daizaburo Hirata

Tomiko Ishii

Kotoe Hatsui

Kazuko Imai

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Kaku Takashina

Eimei Esumi

Kayo Matsuo

Yuzo Kiura

Keisuke Noro

Ichiro Kijima

Masahiro Kinoshita

Jūkei Fujioka

Kentarô Kaji

Hideaki Mitsui

Tokuhei Miyahara

Hiroshi Kōno

Hisao Murata

Hiroshi Chō

Daisuke Ōmi

Hiroshi Chiyoda

Shiro Tonami

Shinzō Shibata

Tōru Sumikawa

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Seishirō Iwate

Yoshihiko Tabata

Hiroshi Takao

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Ken Mizoguchi

Akira Takahashi

Midori Mori

Shoko Sakamaki

Yasue Nishihara

Megumi Wakaba

Makiko Fukamachi

Tamehisa Aida

Kenji Shimamura

Akira Hisamatsu