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Yoto Monogatari, Hana no Yoshiwara Hyakuningiri
JAPAN · 1960

Yoto Monogatari, Hana no Yoshiwara Hyakuningiri

Tomu Uchida
social ostracism physical disability sex work class struggle redemptive love
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Synopsis

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

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