Top film star Isuzu Yamada gives a fine performance as a modern working girl who, to save her father from creditors, agrees to an affair with her skeevy boss, a decision that ultimately ruins her image and relationships. This rather short melodrama from Kenji Mizoguchi shows the director’s propensity for social criticism through the exploitation of an innocent women (the DVD comes from Criterion’s box set titled “Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women”), but only has a few of the cinematic earmarks that would distinguish his most famous films to follow, like a smoothly flowing camera, deep focus, and precision long takes.