Carmen from Kawachi

Tsuyu leaves home for Osaka and starts work as a hostess in a bar. There she meets Yoko, who owns a modelling school. The idea of becoming a model settles in her mind. Yoko makes her an offer: if she moves into the house she can take lessons and make a living at the same time. Tsuyu accepts. The film is about a woman trying to change class in the Japan of the sixties. How much say a woman has over her own life is the real subject. It is one of the studio productions of Japanese cinema in 1966. Yumiko Nogawa takes the lead, with Kōji Wada also in the cast. Seijun Suzuki’s eighty nine minute Japanese film was completed in 1966.