Gate of Flesh

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Gate of Flesh ★★ Nikutai No Mon 1964

In postwar Japan, four prostitutes survive the American Occupation by sticking to their own code of conduct, including a restriction on anyone giving away their services for free. However, conduct becomes a flexible point when the women harbor a wounded black marketeer whom each comes to desire. Based on a novel by Taijiro Tamura. Japanese with subtitles. 90m/C VHS . JP Joe Shishido, Yumiko Nogawa, Kayo Matsuo, Satoko Kasai, Misako Tominaga, Tomiko Ishi; D: Seijun Suzuki.

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