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1970 Japanese film
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Directed byShōhei Imamura
Screenplay byShōhei Imamura
Produced by
  • Nobuyo Horiba
  • Motoo Ogasawara
Starring
  • Emiko Akaza
  • Etsuko Akaza
  • Akemi Akaza
  • Shōhei Imamura
CinematographyMasao Tochikawa}
Edited by
  • Mutsuo Niwa
  • Noriaki Sugimoto
Music byHaruo Ibe
Production
companies
  • Nippon Eiga Shinsha
  • Toho
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 6 March 1970 (1970-03-06) (Japan)
Running time105 minutes
CountryJapan

History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活, Nippon sengoshi – Madamu Onboro no seikatsu) is a 1970 Japanese documentary film by director Shōhei Imamura.

Synopsis

Director Shōhei Imamura interviews Emiko Akaza, the bar hostess of the film's title, who reflects on her life as a prostitute and madam in post-war Yokosuka and comments on news reel footage of Japan's history from 1945 to the present.

Production

After the poor box-office performance of his ambitious 1968 film, The Profound Desire of the Gods, Imamura decided to undertake a more modestly budgeted film. Characteristically, Imamura seeks to investigate an alternative interpretation of recent Japanese history through the eyes of a person living in the lower strata of that society.

Beginning with this film, Imamura was to spend the next decade working in the documentary format. He returned to purely fictional narrative with Vengeance is Mine (1979).

Release

History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess was released in Japan 3 June 1970 where it was distributed by Toho. The film was shown in Los Angeles in 1998 with any earlier American release being undetermined.

References

  1. ^ Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 267–268. ISBN 978-1461673743.
  2. ^ "にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 (Nippon sengoshi: Madamu onboro no seikatsu)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. "にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 (Nippon sengoshi: Madamu onboro no seikatsu)" (in Japanese). Kinenote. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^ Sharp, Jasper. "History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess". Midnight Eye. Archived from the original on 12 June 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

External links

Films directed by Shōhei Imamura


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