Oshima Ayako, a young woman in her teens, lives in a small, impoverished fishing village. Her father is too ill to work. As a result, her mother sells her to a nearby brothel. There she quickly is stripped of her innocence and illusions.
What would happen if you took The Exorcist and mashed it against Memoirs of a Geisha? I don't know, but a possibility is that An Innocent Witch would be the resulting baby. It's a grim and dark portrayal of a young woman's stolen youth and her new life in an abusive and cold existence. It nibbles on the presence of some sort of evil magic involving the deaths of Oshima's customers, but foremost this is a tragic insight into a shattered perception of what adult life could have been.
Genre: Drama
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