by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
In this melodrama, a Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. The resort town begins to feel the influence of the modern world as the sabre-rattling that preceded WWII begins to change their lives forever.
characteristics
- Desertion
- Deserter
- Virgin
- Pure
- Women During Wartime
- Life On The Homefront
- Chaste
- Chastity
- Soldier
- Streetwalker
- Whore
- Courtesan
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Hooker
- Call-girl
