Women of the Night

Women of the Night

1h 14m 7.1/10

Overview

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.

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Top Billed Cast

Sanae Takasugi

Sanae Takasugi

Natsuko Kimijima

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

Fusako Owada

Kumeko Urabe

Kumeko Urabe

Brothel Keeper

Mitsuo Nagata

Kenzô Kuriyama

Hiroshi Aoyama

Tomie Tsunoda

Kumiko Owada

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/9/2022

4/10

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.

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