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“Story Of A Prostitute” (Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1965)

Story Of A Prostitute

At the end of the movie, a Chinese woman says that the Japanese are always in a hurry to die. But dying is not difficult, it’s for the cowards. It’s living that is difficult.

Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirô Tamura (story)
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka
Editing: Akira Suzuki

“Gate Of Flesh” (Seijun Suzuki, Japan 1964)

Gate Of Flesh
An exceptional movie

A prostitute falls in love for the first time and this new feeling puts her survival strategy at risk. When she asks the man she loves about it, he answers: “How am I supposed to know heavy stuff like that?”

Actors: Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Taijirô Tamura (novel), Gorô Tanada
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine
Editing: Akira Suzuki

“Being 17” (André Téchiné, France 2016)

Being 17

“The moving qualities in this film are mostly a coming-out thing, so perhaps straight people won’t relate, but there are glimmers here (and in our times) of that narrative holding enough substance to speak to universal truths.” -[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4331970/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1]

Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein, Sandrine Kiberlain, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret, Jean Fornerod
Director: André Téchiné
Writer: Céline Sciamma, André Téchiné
Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch
Editor: Albertine Lastera
Composer: Alexis Rault