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Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters—Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, 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.
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Women of the Night: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. With Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda, Mitsuo Nagata. A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.
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Oct 23, 2017 · Temporal shifts and ellipses bring us closer to the disorientation felt by these lost women stranded in cold post-war Japan, unsure where to go to find again (or for the first time) their self-determination and pride and pursued by endless men with fifteen rows of sharp teeth in their mouths and finely-tuned hypocrisies and self-regards.
Mizoguchi’s response to the cinematic challenge issued by Italian neorealism, the uniquely rough and immediate Women of the Night was shot on location in a still-scarred postwar Osaka and its seedy nightspots. The troubled fate of Japan is reflected in the stories of two sisters.
Jun 29, 2013 · Four of them are collected in Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women, and the film I’m reviewing today, Women of the Night (from 1948), provides a fascinating counterpoint to the historical saga that he would direct just four years later.
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.
Oct 20, 2017 · Inspired by the Italian Neo Realist movement, Mizoguchi makes brief use of location shooting to emphasise the current state of the city, still strewn with rubble and the aftermath of destruction. Osaka, like Natsuko and Fusako, finds itself at a cross roads of modernity, paralysed by indecision in looking for a way forward.
