Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Shunpu den
115 min
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
- Release date
- February 27, 1965
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Naozumi Yamamoto
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Tamio Kawachi as Shinkichi Mikami
- Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi
- Isao Tamagawa as Narita
- Shōichi Ozawa as Akiyama
- Toshio Sugiyama as Tomoda
- Daisaburō Hirata
- Tomiko Ishii as Yuriko
- Kotoe Hatsui as Tsuyuko
- Kazuko Imai as Sachiko
- Tsutomu Shimomoto
- Kaku Takashina as Makita
- Eimei Esumi as Machida
- Kayo Matsuo as Midori
- Yūzō Kiura as Hachiro Surgeon
- Keisuke Noro as Muraki
- Ichirō Kijima
- Masahiro Kinoshita as Aoyama
- Jūkei Fujioka as Kimura
- Kentarô Kaji as Uno
- Tokuhei Miyahara
- Hiroshi Kôno as Kuramochi
- Hiroshi Chō as Shibata
- Daisuke Ōmi
- Hiroshi Chiyoda
- Shinzō Shibata as Yasuda
Crew
- Seijun Suzuki · Director
- Hajime Takaiwa · Writer
- Taijirô Tamura · Writer
- Kaneo Iwai · Producer
- Naozumi Yamamoto · Composer
- Kazue Nagatsuka · Cinematographer
- Akira Suzuki · Editor
- Takeo Kimura · Production designer