History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
1970 Japanese film
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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 directed and written by Shōhei Imamura.[1][2][3]
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- Nobuyo Horiba
- Motoo Ogasawara
- Emiko Akaza
- Etsuko Akaza
- Akemi Akaza
- Shōhei Imamura
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| Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Screenplay by | Shōhei Imamura |
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| Cinematography | Masao Tochikawa |
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| Music by | Haruo Ibe |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 105 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | Japan |
Synopsis
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.[4]
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).[4]
