Women of the Night Poster

Women of the Night (1948)

May 26, 1948 Drama 1h 14m
71%
User Score
7.2/10

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.

Kenji Mizoguchi
Director
Yoshikata Yoda
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka
Kinuyo Tanaka

Fusako Owada
Sanae Takasugi
Sanae Takasugi

Natsuko Kimijima
Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe

Brothel Keeper
Tomie Tsunoda
Tomie Tsunoda

Kumiko Owada
Mitsuo Nagata
Mitsuo Nagata

Kenzô Kuriyama
Hiroshi Aoyama
Hiroshi Aoyama
Fusako Maki
Fusako Maki
Kikue Mōri
Kikue Mōri
Sadako Sawamura
Sadako Sawamura

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on July 9, 2022

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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