Kegareta Nikutai Seijo

Kegareta Nikutai Seijo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichiyoshi Doi
Written byAkira Sugimoto
Screenplay byAkira Sugimoto
Produced byShintoho
StarringMiyuki Takakura
Mayumi Ozora
Shuntaro Emi
CinematographyMamoru Morita
Music byMichiaki Watanabe
Release date
  • November 29, 1958 (1958-11-29)[1]
Running time
77 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Priestess with the Sullied Flesh (Japanese: 汚れた肉体聖女, Hepburn: Kegareta Nikutai Seijo'; lit.'Dirty Flesh Saint' also known as Impure Nuns) is a 1958 Japanese drama film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.[2] The film follows the story of an affair between two nuns at a religious boarding school.

Synopsis

Eri becomes pregnant after she is raped by a friend of her brother. Her parents force her to have an abortion and they send her to a religious boarding school to become a nun. Three years later, she meets her new roommate, Anna.

Cast

  • Miyuki Takakura [ja] as Eri Taira
  • Mayumi Ôzora [ja] as Yasuko "Anna" Kamiyama
  • Shuntaro Emi as Tomohiko Kamiyama
  • Toshio Mimura as Kyohei Tsuyama
  • Junko Uozumi as Waka Kashiwagi

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "汚れた肉体聖女" [Dirty Flesh Saint]. Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved January 12, 2009.
  2. ^ Yuka Kanno (2018). "7. Panpan Girls, Lesbians and Post-war Women's Communities: Girls of Dark (1961) as Women's Cinema". In González-López, Irene; Smith, Michael (eds.). Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity (1st ed.). Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 187–203. ISBN 978-1474409698. ...the 1958 film Priestess with the Sullied Flesh (Yogoreta nikutai seijo, Doi Michiyoshi) portrayed mock-lesbian sexual acts between nuns in the convent.