Rashamen Oman: Ame no Oranda-zaka AKA Nagasaki Butterfly AKA Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Holland Slope In The Rain (1972) - Chûsei Sone

Oman travel from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.

Maruhi: joro ichiba aka Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market (1972) - Chûsei Sone

IMDB User Comments wrote:
Laughed Until It Hurt!, 17 December 2001
Author: david melville (dwingrove@qmuc.ac.uk) from Edinburgh, Scotland

WARNING: This review reveals some plot points!

I saw this film on late-night British TV (where it was retitled 'The Virgin Courtesan') and can honestly say I haven't laughed so much in years! It plays like a raucous soft-porn parody of 'My Fair Lady' or 'Born Yesterday.' A wide-eyed innocent ventures into a corrupt, alien world - and reduces it to a shambles with her own brand of goofy integrity. Any plot summary makes it sound gross, gratuitous and offensive. How can we laugh at a film where a 'mentally challenged' girl gets sold into prostitution? Especially one that includes a long and drawn-out 'comic' rape scene akin to Almodovar's 'Kika'?