Female Slave Ship (女奴隷船)

Shintoho Film Distribution Committee

FEMALE SLAVE SHIP

A Mitsugu Okura Production

Producer: Yoshihiro Takenaka Based on the Novel by Jun Funazaki Screenplay: Torao Tanabe

Director of Photography: Shin Yamanaka Lighting: Nobuo Hoji Audio Recording: Kazuo Takeguchi Production Design: Akira Ogumi

Music: Chumei Watanabe Assistant Director: Hiromichi Takebe

Starring: Bunta Sugawara / Yoko Mihara / Utako Mitsuya

Tetsuro Tanba / Kotaro Sugie / Jun Otomo Akira Nakamura / Saburo Sawai

Michiko Sakyo / Shuji Kawabe / Masao Takamatsu Yozo Takamura / Jotaro Yuki / Sozaburo Kikuchi

Keiko Hamano / Akemi Nishi / Yaeko Arai Keiko Hasegawa / Sumie Nobe / Ayako Ueno

Directed by Yoshiki Onoda

1945:TheApproachofDefeat

The Tachibana convoy has been sunk east of Luzon...

...by an enemy torpedo attack.

And the kamikaze attack?

The enemy fleet detected them before they got through.

Not one made it?

We don't know, sir. None of the fighter escorts have returned.

The front line is screaming for aircraft!

We have to act!

The enemy controls the air over the Taiwan Strait.

Our convoys can't move.

They can't break through?

I'm afraid not, sir.

With their new radar, the enemy knows exactly what we're doing.

Any foolish move we make invites destruction!

Radar...

NavyHeadquarters,Malaya

Sugawa reporting!

Come in.

Yes, sir!

Lieutenant, you are to go to the High Command in Tokyo.

A German submarine has brought schematics for radar.

This picture has the blueprints reduced and printed...

...on the back.

The enemy is taking air control of the South China Sea.

We have to stop them.

This must reach General Kurimoto at Army Headquarters.

Alright?

Do not fail!

Count on me, sir!

Where are you coming from?

lpoh.

Then I guess you're used to being on planes.

I've never flown before. I'm scared stiff.

We all have to trust in fate.

A transport heading home was shot down just the other day.

Can we get through?

You're ready to die, aren't you?

Well, yes...

Enemy approaching...

...at 10 o'clock!

2,000 meters and closing!

Will we be OK?!

Emergency gear!

Down!

Get dressed.

Where's my shirt?!

What ship is this?

A freighter bound for Shanghai.

A freighter?

There's no spare berths. The Captain put you in here.

Drink it.

Why are you on deck?!

I'm sorry! I was feeling sick!

What?

Who said you could come on deck?

I've been tricked! Let me go home!

Quiet!

It's no use arguing now.

You've been strictly forbidden to leave the hold.

And now you'll feel what happens when you break the rules!

Come on!

I'm sorry!

Shut up.

Behave!

Take that!

And that!

How do you like that, huh?

What's that?

They must be beating up on the women again.

What?!

No! You can't go out there!

- Stop! - Who are you?!

Thank you!

So this is how you repay us after we save your life?

Get up!

Enough!

Pretty tough, huh?

Who are you?

On this boat, the Queen.

'Queen'?

Yes.

The Queen.

The sailors pulled you out of the sea because I told them to.

Come with me.

You get below.

Come on.

Come in.

What's that for?!

Hands off the women!

They're important merchandise.

This is a 'China boat'. We sail there from Kyushu.

We've got 12 women on board we're going to sell.

Sell?

Yes.

They're precious cargo.

Will you go back to Japan?

Yes, for another load.

So you'd best just wait quietly till then.

It'll be cramped for a while, but put up with it...

...and we'll treat you well.

The Captain will do anything I tell him.

Relax.

Hold it!

Is that how you repay a kindness?

You'd better do as I say.

I can do anything I want here.

He can sleep in the hold with the women.

Take him away.

Yes!

Just go with him!

Move!

What's the matter with you? You could at least thank him!

He helped you, didn't he?

Yes.

Thank you very much for what you did out there.

Here, come and sit down.

I didn't know what to think!

I was afraid the Queen would come and punish us, too!

We're prostitutes, so we're resigned to just about anything.

But poor Rumi here was tricked into coming.

Tricked?

Yes. Her uncle told her she was going to become a field nurse!

It's criminal!

I see...

You like that guy, don't you.

Don't be silly!

Stop it!

You're the only one for me.

Oh, yeah?

Yes.

Why would I fall for a guy like that? The very idea!

- Pirates? - Yes.

Emergency stations!

Get that Lieutenant up here.

Starboard 15 degrees!

Starboard 15 degrees!

Customers?

Starboard ten degrees!

Starboard ten degrees!

Break out the weapons!

What's wrong?

Pirates!

Pirates?! Can you outrun them?

All the steam we have wouldn't be enough to do that!

There's no time to talk! We have to fight!

Help us, will you?

Is everyone armed?

What's going on?!

Open up!

Help!

Fire!

Idiot!

Stay down!

Let go of me!

Take that one alive.

Tough guy, huh?

What do we do with her, boss?

Take care of her. Treat her right.

Everything's under control.

Get whatever's worth taking.

One, two, three!

Hey, boss! Look what we found locked in the hold!

Well, what do you know!

Who'd have thought there'd be women here!

Stop it!

No! Don't! Stop!

Take your hands off her!

You're a Japanese officer, aren't you.

What?

I can tell by that look.

Let's go!

Get all this stuff stowed away.

Keep your spirits up. Our chance will come.

You work too.

No.

Shall I show you what happens when you don't listen?

You're going to work for me.

Take your hands off her!

Shut up and drink.

That's enough!

Shut up!

We've got a score to settle from this afternoon!

Now what?

We're going to show you a real good time...

Stop it!

You'll never take him.

Rumi!

Move!