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  Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

  Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute

  Directed by Shohei Imamura • Documentary • 1975 • 75 minutes

  From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, Japanese girls and women were trafficked out of Japan and sent to foreign countries like China, Singapore, and beyond to serve as indentured prostitutes. These women were called Karayuki-san.

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  Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor

  Karl Polanyi, The Human Factor

  Directed by Ilan Ziv • Documentary • 2014 • 53 minutes

  Taking us on a journey from ancient Sumeria to the towers of Frankfurt, this episode of CAPITALISM argues that commercial transactions have always been embedded in social norms, and that a self-regulating market economy is in no way a natura...

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  Kati With an I

  Kati With an I

  Directed by Robert Greene • Documentary • 2010 • 86 minutes

  At once universal and personal, this intimate documentary portrait of an Alabama teenage girl on the verge of her high school graduation captures three tumultuous days during which her future is cast into doubt.

  Eighteen-year-old Kati ...