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Tokyo Bordello

Directed by Hideo Gosha
Film Movement Classics
1987
133 Minutes
Japan
Japanese
Classics, Drama, Asian
Asian Studies, Women's Studies, Sex & Sexuality, History
Not Rated
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A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. After several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer. Presented in a new 2K restoration.

Cast

  • Yuko Natori
  • Rino Katase
  • Jinpachi Nezu
  • Sayoko Ninomiya
  • Mariko Fuji
  • Highest Rating
    "[A] fabulously lush film.... Almost every scene is visually striking.... It is also a sympathetic rather than salacious look at the lives of the young women so continually and often casually sacrificed to the “entertainment” system that grew up in the Tokugawa era. "
    Japan on Film

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Awards & Recognition

Winner
Best Supporting Actress
Awards of the Japanese Academy
Nominated
7 Awards inc. Best Film, Best Director
Awards of the Japanese Academy

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