Nippon konchuki (The Insect Woman) (1963)

Nippon konchuki (The Insect Woman) (1963)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057363/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insect_Woman

Release Date 16 November 1963
Language Japanese
SubtTiTulos English
Category Classic, Asian, Japan
Director Shohei Imamura
Starring Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi, Daizaburo Hirata, Seizaburo Kawazu,Teruko Kishi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kazuo Kitamura, Asao Koike, Masakazu Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shoichi Ozawa,Sumie Sasaki, Taiji Tonoyama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Jitsuko Yoshimura

Amorality in Japan. Tome is born into poverty in rural Japan, in the late 1910s. Chuji, her father, dotes on her; her mother is less faithful. Tome becomes a neighbor's mistress, works at his mill as World War II rages, and has a daughter. After an affair with a mill supervisor, Tome goes to Tokyo to seek her fortune. She leaves the child, Nobuko, in Chuji's care. Tome's a maid at a brothel, learns trade from the madam, enjoys the protection of a businessman whose mistress she becomes, and is soon herself the boss. As Chuji ages and Nobuko grows up with her own ideas, can Tome's self-preserving schemes provide continued comfort? Or will the mice scamper over her?