Characters & Themes
The Shape of Night (1964) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1964 · 109 mins · Japanese
- Directed by
- Noboru Nakamura
- Starring
- Miyuki Kuwano, Isao Kimura, Tonbo Zushi, Akitake Kôno, Mikijiro Hira, Bunta Sugawara
By day Yoshie Nogami toils at a factory, and by night she tends a bar as a hostess. When she embarks on an intense affair with a frequent customer, his increasingly erratic behavior and relentless requests for cash draw her deeper into a dangerous, self‑destructive spiral. She struggles to balance her two jobs and the mounting pressure, pushing her toward desperate choices.
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