The film follows Tome's life from the war to the beginning of the 60s'. Grown up in the north to a family of poor farmers, Tome has always been put upon in working and sexually abused.
Nobuko, her daughter, is born from a one-night stand. Following a failed marriage, Tome moves to a city and finds her own independence working first as a worker and maid and after as a prostitute and a "brothel-madame".
Imamura's film tells without reticences a personal story and turns it into a collective metaphor. Magnificent are the Scope photographs, shot with unusual objectives like 210 mm and 700 mm.
Country: Giappone
Year: 1963
Running time: 123'
Format: 35 mm
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Keiji Hasebe, Shohei Imamura
Cinematography: Shinsaku Imeda
Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi
With: Sachiki Hodari, Kazuo Kitamura, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Seizaburo Kawazu
Produced by: Nikkatsu
