Women of the Night

Name: Women of the Night
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1948

Kenji Mizoguchi

post-war survival sex work female displacement class struggle family bonds

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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.

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