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Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute

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Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute is a 1975 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It is a documentary on one of the Japanese "karayuki-san," who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Many of these women were told that they were doing this to support their families because of the extreme poverty that the war left much of Japan to live in. Imamura focuses on a particular such woman who was sent to Malaysia and never returned to Japan. Joan Mellen, in The Waves at Genji's Door, called this film, "Perhaps the most brilliant and feeling of Imamura's fine documentaries."

Directed byShōhei Imamura

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 15m
Language
JA
Released
January 1, 1973
Studios
Imamura Productions

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2 credited
Starring

Kikuyo Zendo

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Shōhei Imamura

Shōhei Imamura

Himself

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Directed by
Shōhei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura

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