| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 73min |
| Country: | Japan |
| Cast: | Tinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, and Mitsuo Nagata |
| Credits: | Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japanese w/English subtitles, bw, 35mm) |
Synopsis: A harrowing, harshly realistic portrait of prostitution during the postwar Occupation, Mizoguchi's Women Of The Night is said to have been instrumental in the passage of japan's anti-prostitutional law. Kinuyo Tanaka gives a virtuosa performance as a war widow who takes a job as a secretary to survive and is harassed into becoming her boss' mistress. Prostitution becomes a paradoxial way out: by working the streets, she frees herself of her boss and ultimately finds a destructive path to revenge her humiliation.
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