Women of the Night

Overview:

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Status:

Released

Language:

Japanese

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

osaka, japan
prostitution
post war japan

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

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Fusako Owada

Sanae Takasugi

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Natsuko Kimijima

Kumeko Urabe

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Brothel Keeper

Tomie Tsunoda

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Kumiko Owada

Mitsuo Nagata

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Kenzô Kuriyama

Hiroshi Aoyama

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Fusako Maki

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Kikue Mōri

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Sadako Sawamura

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Ken Tanaka

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
4
Sadly, this is an overly convoluted tale that could have done rather more had William Rowland kept his cast focused. As it is, it's a fairly preposterous tale of some die-hard Nazis who may have a secret cosmic ray in the Oriental theatre of War. Determined to keep it from their Japanese allies who have just been victim to the Nagasaki A-bomb, much of the action takes place in a bordello, of sorts, where women have been drafted in from Shanghai University to "entertain" the Japanese officers and who are now bent on vengeance - or at least most of them are. Is there a traitor amongst them? Meantime, one of the German officers might be a spy too? There are far too many sub-plots, the writing is rambling and the performances are nothing much to write home about.