Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute is a 1975 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It is a documentary on one of the Japanese "karayuki-san," who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Many of these women were told that they were doing this to support their families because of the extreme poverty that the war left much of Japan to live in. Imamura focuses on a particular such woman who was sent to Malaysia and never returned to Japan. Joan Mellen, in The Waves at Genji's Door, called this film, "Perhaps the most brilliant and feeling of Imamura's fine documentaries."
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Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...
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In the spring of 1902, Viennese working-class daughter Marie König runs away from her beating father...
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This exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.
Documentary look at doomed male prostitutes in Prague, ages 15 to 18, who troll at the public swimmi...
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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A documentary about the girls of the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada.
Russ Meyer's documentary about the underground vice world of Europe.
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