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Drama

Women of the Night

User Score30 votes
71%7.1/10
Release1948
Runtime1H 14M
LanguageJapanese
StatusReleased

Synopsis

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.

Principal Cast8

Full Cast & Crew (43)

Media9

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Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi

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Keywords

osaka, japanprostitutionpost war japan

Where to Watch

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Reviews1

CinemaSerf4/10

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.

Jul 9, 2022

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