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Yoru no onnatachi [videorecording] / Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha [haikyū] ; kyakushoku Ida Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji = Women of the night / a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

夜の女たち
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Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako and Natsuko, one a war widow and the other in an affair with a drug dealer. Along with their younger friend Kumiko they fall into prostitution and moral chaos and a life of gangs and gangsters, trapped by their city's...

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Corporate Authors: Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991 (Screenwriter), Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956 (Director), Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977 (Actor), Takasugi, Sanae, 1918-1995 (Actor), Tsunoda, Tomie (Actor), Nagata, Mitsuo (Actor), Murata, Hirohisa (Actor), Urabe, Kumeko, 1902-1989 (Actor), Mōri, Kikue (Actor), Hisaita, Eijirō, 1898-1976
Other title:Women of the night.
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
English
Published: Irvington, New York : The Criterion Collection [Distributor], 2008.
Edition:Fullscreen.
Series:Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women.
Eclipse ; Series 13.
Subjects:
War widows > Japan > Drama.
Prostitutes > Japan > Drama.
Drug dealers > Japan > Drama.
Gangs > Japan > Drama.
Adultery > Japan > Drama.
Women > Japan > Social conditions > 20th century > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Civilians > Drama.
Japan > Social life and customs > 1945- > Drama.
Feature films.
Gangster films.
Crime films.
Romance films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Call Number: PN1997 .Y578 2008 DVD
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