The Oldest Profession (1974)
- Original title
- ㊙色情めす市場
- Directed by
- Noboru Tanaka
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young prostitute supports her mentally disabled brother and her aging mother, also a prostitute, as they struggle to get by in 1970s Osaka.
bleakslow-burnintimatemelancholicgrittynaturalisticemotionally rawquietly intenseunsentimental
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