History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

(1970)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 11 votes

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 1970

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Сёхэй Имамура

Cast: Emiko Akaza

Plot

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)