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Seijun Suzuki followed up the success of his lurid adaptation of Tajiro Tamura's lusty Gate of Flesh with this melodramatic tale of sexual possession, revenge, and all-consuming passion under fire from another Tamura novel. Set on the Manchurian front in World War II, the antimilitaristic Story of a Prostitute moves from magnificent black-and-white vistas and thoughtful views of our wistful heroine Harumi (Yumiko Nogawa) to the grim realities of life on a remote military outpost as she flees romantic heartbreak by becoming a "comfort woman," a prostitute serving Japanese soldiers. When the brutal base adjutant claims her as his personal property, she seduces his loyal, straight-arrow attendant Mikami (Tamio Kawachi) to help her plot his demise, only to fall helplessly in love with him. The affair stokes the adjutant's pathological jealousy and tears Mikami between his duty and his uncontrollable lust. Though dotted with scenes of sexual sadism and explosions of stylistic ecstasy (the scenes of the Chinese army's attack, with fiery rockets shooting overhead followed by swarms of soldiers leaping over the trenches like rushing water, are both dramatically potent and stunningly beautiful), this is Suzuki's most elegantly restrained feature--which unfortunately foregrounds the weak development of the supporting characters. Driven by the increasingly hysterical performance of Nogawa, this is ultimately a powerful, potent condemnation of militarism, which Suzuki would refine in the superior 1966 satirical drama Fighting Elegy. --Sean Axmaker
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Seijun Suzuki |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1965 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Home Vision Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Japanese |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429132531 |