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Story of a Prostitute (春婦伝, Shunpuden) is a 1965 Japanese romantic war drama film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is based on a story by Taijiro Tamura who, like Suzuki, had served as a soldier in the war.
Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in the early 1970s. Here she describes how she was pulled into working on the streets and why, three decades later, she devoted...
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.
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.
Story of a Prostitute. 1965. 春婦伝. Directed by Seijun Suzuki. 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.
Frequent Suzuki collaborator Yumiko Nogawa plays Harumi, a young Japanese woman who punishes the man she loves by punishing herself: after her betrothed marries another woman, Harumi...
The first shot of the protagonist in Story of a Prostitute will look oddly familiar to fans of Japanese action films: an isolated, kimono-clad figure striding across a barren, almost volcanic landscape. It harks back to the conventional introductory images of rootless heroes in countless films about ronin (masterless samurai), outcast warriors adrift in an existential wasteland. The difference ...
