Karayuki san, The Making of a Prostitute Shôhei Imamura, Kurahachi Fukuda, Tora Hirano, 1975

It is a documentary on one of the Japanese karayukisan, who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the postwar period. Many of these women were told that they were doing this to support their families because of the extreme poverty that the war left much of Japan to live in. Imamura focuses on a particular such woman who was sent to Malaysia and never returned to Japan. Joan Mellen, in The Waves at Genjis Door, called this film, Perhaps the most brilliant and feeling of Imamuras fine documentaries.