History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)

にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活

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)

Date of release
1970-06-03
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Documentary, History
Director
Shōhei Imamura

Casting

Interesting facts

History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess is a 1970 Japanese documentary film directed and written by Shōhei Imamura.

Production

After the poor box-office performance of his ambitious 1968 film, The Profound Desire of the Gods, Imamura decided to undertake a more modestly budgeted film. Characteristically, Imamura seeks to investigate an alternative interpretation of recent Japanese history through the eyes of a person living in the lower strata of that society.

Beginning with this film, Imamura was to spend the next decade working in the documentary format. He returned to purely fictional narrative with Vengeance is Mine (1979).

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