Gate of Flesh (1964)

Original title

肉体の門

Directed by

Seijun Suzuki

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 70 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In post-war Tokyo, a group of prostitutes live by a strict code in a bombed-out building. Their fragile order is disrupted when an ex-soldier seeks shelter with them, triggering violence and jealousy.

rawseedybrutalmelancholicsexually chargedallegoricaldesperatecynical

What happens

Gate of Flesh (Japanese: 肉體の門, Hepburn: Nikutai no mon) is a 1964 Japanese film based on a novel by Taijiro Tamura and directed by Seijun Suzuki. The first of Suzuki's "flesh trilogy" (followed by Story of a Prostitute and Carmen from Kawachi), the series is considered the "crowning achievement" of his period working at the production house Nikkatsu. The film is viewed as a direct and allegorical critique of Japan's Occupation and subsequent development, which rather than breaking with the country's pre-war militaristic, authoritarian social structures only sees their reconstitution in the post-war period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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