History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

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 twentyfive years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body doclisboa