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Nippon sengoshi – Madame Onboro no seikatsu

Shohei Imamura
1970 Japan 105 minutes Japanese

In a film theatre, Imamura shows Madame Onboro news-reels covering the main social events that have shaken Japan and other parts of the world since the Second World War. The former bar-hostess and prostitute seems little concerned with all that, the official version of History does not appear to have affected her own personal history…

Shohei Imamura

1926 – 2006

Production :
Nihon Eiga Shinsha
Distribution :
Films sans frontières
Sound :
Yoshio Hasegawa
Photography :
Masao Tochizawa

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