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

movie - first aired/released 1970-06-03 - 105 min - audience 6.1

Documentary, History

Directed by Shōhei Imamura

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)