Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market (1972)
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Genre: Pinku Eiga
Country: Japan | Director: Chûsei Sone
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English (.srt file)
Aspect ratio: Cinemascope 2.35:1 | Length: 69mn
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Chusei Sone directed this softcore melodrama, the first in an above-average
Nikkatsu studio pinku eiga trilogy looking at prostitution in three Japanese
cities. Sone's film is a comical look at a Tokyo brothel in the 1800s starring
Yuko Katagiri as a young prostitute who learns her craft through a series of
funny, often bizarre encounters with clients including an immense, clumsy
sumo wrestler and a man with a most unusual skin condition.
It plays like a raucous soft-porn parody of 'My Fair Lady' or 'Born Yesterday.'
A wide-eyed innocent ventures into a corrupt, alien world - and reduces it to
a shambles with her own brand of goofy integrity. Any plot summary makes it
sound gross, gratuitous and offensive. How can we laugh at a film where a
'mentally challenged' girl gets sold into prostitution? Especially one that
includes a long and drawn-out 'comic' r*** scene akin to Almodovar's 'Kika'?
Incredibly enough, laugh we can and laugh we do. The humour is raunchy
and outrageous - and often very black. Yet director Chusei Sone has an
elegance and lightness of touch that ensures it's never vulgar and (more
important, perhaps) never cruel. Not even a closing act of necrophilia can
shatter the film's overall good spirits, or our liking for its 'dumb but honest'
heroine - whose naivete about sex and her own body makes her an unlikely
feminist figure in patriarchal 19th century Japan. This film is a gem! Don't
miss it!
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