Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths
1971, Japanese. Directed by Sadao Nakajima.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 12 January 1971
- Original title
- 驚異のドキュメント 日本浴場物語
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Takeo Kaneko, Sadao Nakajima
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Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths (1971) was directed by Sadao Nakajima and stars Shōji Ōki, Miwako Onaya.