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

July 5–December 15

Floating Clouds… The Cinema of Naruse Mikio

September 13–December 13

New Dog, New Tricks: Youth in Cinema

November 7–December 14

Columbia 101: The Rarities