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Women of the Night: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. With Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda, Mitsuo Nagata. A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.
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- Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Women of the Night (夜の女たち, Yoru no onna-tachi) is a 1948 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka. [1] [2] Plot [ edit] 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.
- Kōhei Sugiyama
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Hisao Itoya
Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters—Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, having an affair with a narcotics smuggler—who along with their younger friend Kumiko descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.
In the wake postwar devastation, the film focuses on three women. Two of them are sisters reunited after the war, with their parents dead, and one of them has lost her husband and child, and...
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- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Jun 29, 2013 · Four of them are collected in Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women, and the film I’m reviewing today, Women of the Night (from 1948), provides a fascinating counterpoint to the historical saga that he would direct just four years later.
TV-14. Drama · Foreign/International. The mistress of a drug dealer in post-World War II Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is also having an affair with her sister. Subtitles: English. Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka Sanae Takasugi Tomie Tsunoda Mitsuo Nagata Kikue Môri. Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi.
Film Details. Also Known As. Yoru no onnatachi. Genre. Drama. Adaptation. Foreign. Release Date. 1948. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 15m. TCM Emails. Sign Up. The mistress of a drug dealer is shaken when she learns that her lover is having an affair with her sister.
