Tamanoi, street of joy

Retrospective, JP 1974, 78 min., jpn./dt. OV +dt. UT

By: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Akasen tamanoi, nukeraremasu
Tamanoi, street of joy

The film takes place in the 1950ies in the Tokyo red light district Tamanoi and ironically tells about the prostitutes’ joy and suffering shortly before the adoption of the anti-prostitution law. Shimako likes tattooed man and is doing everything for the love of her gangster friend Shiba while the married Kimiko is disappointed by her husband and is looking for sexual satisfaction. Naoko, however, wants to break the record of her colleague who had 26 clients in one day.

© 1974 Nikkatsu Corporation

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