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Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths (1971)
Directed by Sadao Nakajima
Documentary · 1h 28m
Ippei was born at the cost of his mother's life. This fact haunts him, he felt a longing for Japan's ancient hot springs and embarked on a journey to find his ideal bath. The pinnacle of baths was the bathhouses with female bathers during the Keicho and Kan'ei eras. Men would drink sake with female bathers, push them down, and moan as they did so. Bathing also had an aspect of women's pursuit of beauty. Beautiful women try out various forms of bathing. Ippei's pilgrimage introduces various hot springs and engaging in sexual acts with the hot women he encounters. He experiences various bathing scenes, including Turkish baths and secretly filmed geishas bathing.
Cast
Miwako Onaya
Crew
- Director
- Sadao Nakajima
- Screenplay
- Sadao Nakajima, Takeo Kaneko
- Director of Photography
- Shigeru Akatsuka
- Original Music Composer
- Ichiro Araki
Details
- Original title
- 驚異のドキュメント 日本浴場物語
- Release date
- 1971-01-12
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company