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Women of the Night
Women of the Night
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WOMEN OF THE NIGHT

夜の女たち | Yoru no onnatachi

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Japan, 1948
Drama

Synopsis

Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters – Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, who is 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.

Synopsis

Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters – Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, who is 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.