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Wed 11 Sep 2024
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Based on the novel by Yoriyoshi Arima, Masumura’s most internationally celebrated film is also the peak of his 20 collaborations with actor Ayako Wakao. Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War, its narrative concerns an army nurse (Wakao) who, after being assaulted by a patient, begins performing sexual favours for others, questioning how to retain her humanity during the most inhumane events. A confronting and ethically complex film, “neither its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus can be easily shaken off” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
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