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

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

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