Friday | December 14, 2007 9:45 pm

A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
(Nippon sengo-shi: MadamuOmboro no seikatsu)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
Japan, 1970, 35mm, color, 105 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

Rather than an “official story” of Japan's postwar economic miracle, Imamura offers the pointed views of the resilient, lower-caste Madame Omboro, brilliantly contrasting the bar owner's story of her life with newsreel footage of major events from 1945 to 1970: from Japan's surrender at the end of WWII through U.S. occupation to student protests and the Vietnam War.

December 1 – 14, 2007

A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
(Nippon sengo-shi: MadamuOmboro no seikatsu)

Part of film series

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

Part of film series

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

Screenings from this program December 2007

Saturday01December

Vengeance Is Mine

A Man Vanishes

Sunday02December

The Profound Desire of the Gods

Why Not?

Monday03December

The Pornographers

Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

Friday07December

The Ballad of Narayama

Zegen

Saturday08December

Pigs and Battleships

The Insect Woman

Sunday09December

Lights of Night / My Second Brother

Stolen Desire

Endless Desire

Monday10December

Black Rain

The Eel

Friday14December

Intentions of Murder

A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

Screenings from this program
December 2007