Monday | December 3, 2007 9:30 pm

Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute
(Karayuki-san)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
Japan, 1970, 35mm, color, 70 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Kino International

Imamura travels to Malaysia to interview a karayuki-san, one of the many Japanese women forced into sexual slavery by the military government. Like many of the karayuki-san, Kikuyo Zendo, now toothless at 74 and the widow of an Indian shopkeeper, chose not to return to Japan after the war. Imamura probes Zendo's past and her horrifying wartime experience.

December 1 – 14, 2007

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

February 20

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins