Karayuki-san

Name: Karayuki-san
Released: 1975
Rating: 64.42

1975

Documentary

1h 10m

KARAYUKI-SAN finds the filmmaker traveling to Malaysia to interview Kikuyo Zendo, one of the countless Japanese women who were kidnapped or otherwise sold into sexual slavery in order to service the Japanese military in Southeast Asia. 74 years old at the time of filming, she offers a frank and harrowing testimony into her horrific wartime experiences, and the factors that have led her to choose exile over repatriation. (KG)

Directed by:

Shohei Imamura

Genre:

Documentary

AKAs:

Karayuki san, Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

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1975

Documentary

1h 10m

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Mentaculus

Rated 02 May 2015

Imamura's films are of course ethnographic, often emotional, somewhat contradictory, but ultimately perverse synecdoches for a perverse cultural wrong. Here is nothing less than government-sanctioned kidnapping of underage girls for prostitution. Kikuyo's story is one to be told, and she takes to the part with relish. Her story is terrifying but also speaks to the resilience of the human spirit in the marginalized - Imamura's unique spin on humanism.

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