1965-02-27
96 mins
The Plot
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.
Cast and Crew
Tamio Kawachi
Shinkichi Mikami
Yumiko Nogawa
Harumi
Isao Tamagawa
Narita
Shoichi Ozawa
Akiyama
Toshio Sugiyama
Tomoda
Daizaburo Hirata
Tomiko Ishii
Yuriko
Kotoe Hatsui
Tsuyuko
Kazuko Imai
Sachiko
Tsutomu Shimomoto
Kaku Takashina
Makita
Eimei Esumi
Machida
Kayo Matsuo
Midori
Yuzo Kiura
Hachiro Surgeon
Keisuke Noro
Muraki
Ichiro Kijima
Masahiro Kinoshita
Aoyama
Jūkei Fujioka
Kimura
Kentarô Kaji
Uno
Hideaki Mitsui
Sakai
Tokuhei Miyahara
Hiroshi Kōno
Kuramochi
Hisao Murata
Hiroshi Chō
Shibata
Daisuke Ōmi
Hiroshi Chiyoda
Shiro Tonami
Shinzō Shibata
Yasuda
Tōru Sumikawa
Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
Seishirō Iwate
Yoshihiko Tabata
Hiroshi Takao
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Sasaki
Ken Mizoguchi
Akira Takahashi
Midori Mori
Takako
Shoko Sakamaki
Yasue Nishihara
Megumi Wakaba
Sakae
Makiko Fukamachi
Tamehisa Aida
Kenji Shimamura