Movies: Taijirō Tamura

  • 1988
    Carmen 1945

    Carmen 1945 (1988)

    Carmen 1945

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    Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typi...

    Carmen 1945
  • 1964
    Gate of Flesh

    Gate of Flesh (1964)

    Gate of Flesh

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    In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stu...

    Gate of Flesh
  • 1965
    Story of a Prostitute

    Story of a Prostitute (1965)

    Story of a Prostitute

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    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
  • 1950
    Escape at Dawn

    Escape at Dawn (1950)

    Escape at Dawn

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    Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her....

    Escape at Dawn
  • 1954
    Turbid Youth

    Turbid Youth (1954)

    Turbid Youth

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    Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry....

    Turbid Youth
  • 1961
    A Killer Without a Grave

    A Killer Without a Grave (1961)

    A Killer Without a Grave

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    Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka i...

    A Killer Without a Grave
  • 1948
    Gate of Flesh

    Gate of Flesh (1948)

    Gate of Flesh

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    A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden....

    Gate of Flesh
  • 1977
    Gate of Flesh

    Gate of Flesh (1977)

    Gate of Flesh

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    The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women....

    Gate of Flesh
  • 1949
    Delinquent Girl

    Delinquent Girl (1949)

    Delinquent Girl

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    A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presumed to be a lost film....

    Delinquent Girl
  • 1964
    The Call of Flesh

    The Call of Flesh (1964)

    The Call of Flesh

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    A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life....

    The Call of Flesh