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
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Dear Summer Sister (1974)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.
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