The Insect Woman

1963 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Drama Prostitution

Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village to find work in factory, where she engages in an affair with her boss. She works later as a maid, and then as a prostitute.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata · Seizaburô Kawazu · Teruko Kishi · Tanie Kitabayashi · Kazuo Kitamura · Asao Koike · Hiroyuki Nagato · Shoichi Ozawa · Tomio Aoki · Hyôe Enoki · Emiko Azuma · Yuzo Harumi · Jôji Hidehara · Kayoko Honjo · Takeshi Katô · Masakazu Kuwayama · Hiroshi Midorigawa · Midori Mori · Taiji Tonoyama · Toshio Takahara · Sumie Sasaki · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi