Women of the Night (1948)
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
- Eijirō Hisaita
- Yoshikata Yoda
Rating: 7.2/10 by 28 users
Alternative Title:
Yoru no onnatachi - JP
Les femmes de la nuit - FR
Frauen der Nacht - DE
Women of the Night - US
Kobiety nocy - PL
Mulheres da Noite - BR
밤의 여인들 - KR
Country:
Japan
Language:
日本語
Runtime: 01 hour 14 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: osaka, japan, prostitution, post war japan
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.
