History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活

Also known as Nippon Sengoshi: Madamu Onboro no Seikatsu, Histoire du Japon d'après-guerre racontée par une hôtesse de bar, Historia del Japón de la postguerra: La vida de la camarera Onboro, Baaritytön tarina, Historia powojennej Japonii opowiedziana przez barmanke

Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)