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HISTORY OF POSTWAR JAPAN AS TOLD BY A BAR HOSTESS

Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu

Directed by Shôhei Imamura
Japan, 1970
Documentary
  • 105105 minutes

Synopsis

Madame Onboro sits in a Tokyo bar, which she used to own, and tells the story of the various means she used to survive, beginning with the day the atom bomb fell. It is a history of compromises and hard deeds, though there are few outright betrayals.

Synopsis

Madame Onboro sits in a Tokyo bar, which she used to own, and tells the story of the various means she used to survive, beginning with the day the atom bomb fell. It is a history of compromises and hard deeds, though there are few outright betrayals.