Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths

Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths (1971)

Documentary

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
Writers: Takeo Kaneko, Sadao Nakajima.

Casts

	Shōji Ōki as Nonomura
	Miwako Onaya as

Crew