Movie

Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths

驚異のドキュメント　日本浴場物語

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.

Director

Sadao Nakajima

Screenplay

Sadao Nakajima

Screenplay

Takeo Kaneko

Music

Ichiro Araki

Status

Released

Release date

12/01/1971

Original language

Japanese