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Women of the Night
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Women of the Night

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User Score31 ratings
TMDB 7.116+19481h 14mJapanese
Drama

Synopsis

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

Director
Kenji MizoguchiFrom TMDB credits
Studio
Shochiku1 production companies
Release
May 26, 1948Released
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Top Cast

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Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka
Fusako Owada
Sanae Takasugi
Sanae Takasugi
Natsuko Kimijima
Tomie Tsunoda
Kumiko Owada
Mitsuo Nagata
Kenzô Kuriyama
Kōju Murata
Kōju Murata
Hospital Director
Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe
Brothel Keeper
Kikue Mōri
Second Hand Clothes Shop Proprietres
Minpei Tomimoto
Koji Owada

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Reviews

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CinemaSerf
Jul 9, 2022

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.

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