by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
With humor and tenderness, this film explores the lives of four Japanese prostitutes in the time just before that lifestyle was outlawed in 1958. All four take some pride in their work, though one of them responds to aging with a suicide gesture.
characteristics
- Streetwalker
- Whore
- Hooker
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Courtesan
- Call-girl
- Suicide
- Suicidal
- Japan
- Aging
- Prostitutes
- Sex
