Under the night sky, a prostitute in her fifties, Ah Chun (played by Kiyoshi Tanaka), wandered the streets. After entering a temple, she recalled her [Expand All]
Under the night sky, a prostitute in her fifties, Ah Chun (played by Kiyoshi Tanaka), wandered the streets. After entering a temple, she recalled her tumultuous and miserable first half of life. When she was young, Ah Chun was a maid in a noble family. She fell in love with the lower-ranking samurai Katsunosuke, and they were discovered having an affair. Ah Chun, along with her parents, was expelled from the city, and Katsunosuke was executed. In order to carry on the family line, the Great Lord of Matsuhira sent people to select concubines everywhere. The beautiful Ah Chun was chosen and became the concubine of Lord Songping. Soon, she gave birth to a son. The Songping family was overjoyed, and Ah Chun thought he had settled down. However, the original wife was extremely jealous of Ah Chun. So, the Matsudaka family sent her back home on the grounds that she had deceived the Lord. In order to pay off her debts, Ah Chun's father sold her to a brothel. A generous guest took a fancy to Ah Chun and wanted to redeem her. However, this person was a fraudster specializing in counterfeiting money and was soon arrested. Ah Chun was also driven away by the brothel. After that, Ah Chun went through all kinds of ups and downs. Eventually, she had no choice but to end up on the streets. In the midst of poverty and illness, she learned that her son had become a Lord...[Collapse]
