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Story of a Prostitute
1965 | 96m | Japanese
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Seijun Suzuki |
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| Writer: | Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirō Tamura |
| Staring: |
| Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 27, 1965 |
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| Director: | Seijun Suzuki |
| Writer: | Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirō Tamura |
| Genres: | War, Drama, Romance |
| Keywords | buddhism, japan, china, prostitute, desertion, manchuria, hand grenade, remake, second sino-japanese war (1937-45), prostitution, soldier, desert, colonialism, misogyny, trenches |
| Production Companies | Nikkatsu Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 26, 2026 Entered: Feb 26, 2026 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Tamio Kawachi | Shinkichi Mikami |
| Yumiko Nogawa | Harumi |
| Isao Tamagawa | Narita |
| Shoichi Ozawa | Akiyama |
| Toshio Sugiyama | Tomoda |
| Daizaburo Hirata | |
| Tomiko Ishii | Yuriko |
| Kotoe Hatsui | Tsuyuko |
| Kazuko Imai | Sachiko |
| Tsutomu Shimomoto | |
| Kaku Takashina | Makita |
| Eimei Esumi | Machida |
| Kayo Matsuo | Midori |
| Yuzo Kiura | Hachiro Surgeon |
| Keisuke Noro | Muraki |
| Ichiro Kijima | |
| Masahiro Kinoshita | Aoyama |
| Jūkei Fujioka | Kimura |
| Kentarô Kaji | Uno |
| Hideaki Mitsui | Sakai |
| Tokuhei Miyahara | |
| Hiroshi Kōno | Kuramochi |
| Hisao Murata | |
| Hiroshi Chō | Shibata |
| Daisuke Ōmi | |
| Hiroshi Chiyoda | |
| Shiro Tonami | |
| Shinzō Shibata | Yasuda |
| Tōru Sumikawa | |
| Yoshihiro Yamaguchi | |
| Seishirō Iwate | |
| Yoshihiko Tabata | |
| Hiroshi Takao | |
| Hiroshi Tachikawa | Sasaki |
| Ken Mizoguchi | |
| Akira Takahashi | |
| Midori Mori | Takako |
| Shoko Sakamaki | |
| Yasue Nishihara | |
| Megumi Wakaba | Sakae |
| Makiko Fukamachi | |
| Tamehisa Aida | |
| Kenji Shimamura | |
| Akira Hisamatsu |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Seijun Suzuki | Director |
| Kazue Nagatsuka | Director of Photography |
| Toshimi Katagiri | Sound |
| Midori Kuwabara | Script Supervisor |
| Hajime Takaiwa | Writer |
| Taijirō Tamura | Novel |
| Keiji Kaneda | Special Effects |
| Naozumi Yamamoto | Original Music Composer |
| Takeo Kimura | Production Design |
| Banri Sonoyama | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Masami Kuzū | Assistant Director |
| Masahiro Takashima | Lighting Technician |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Kaneo Iwai | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 3 |
| 2024 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 3 |
| 2024 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 2024 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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