Film
Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths
1971 · 1h 28m · Documentary
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Overview
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
Crew
- Sadao NakajimaDirector · Screenplay
- Takeo KanekoScreenplay
- Shigeru AkatsukaDirector of Photography
- Ichiro ArakiOriginal Music Composer
Details
- Release date
- January 12, 1971
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary
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