![]() ![]() She descended the staircase-itself a large affair that ended right in the middle of the customers. ![]() And every night around ten, Sada Abé would make her entrance. There, every night, workers of the neighborhood-for it was a taishu-sakaba, a workingman’s pub-would gather to drink sake and shochu and nibble grilled squid and pickled radish. They appear here with the author’s permission.Īfter the war, released from prison, she got herself a job in Inari-cho, in downtown Tokyo: at the Hoshi-Kiku-Sui-the Star-Chrysanthemum-Water-a pub. These profiles of the real-life Sada Abé and the actress who portrayed her in Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses first appeared in Donald Richie’s 1987 book Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese, and can also be found in the 2006 Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People. ![]()
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