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Women of the Night (1948) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1948 · 74 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Starring
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Sadako Sawamura, Ken Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoyama, Sanae Takasugi
Set in early post‑war Osaka, the film follows three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expatriate sister Natsuko, and Fusako’s sister‑in‑law Kumiko—each driven by personal hardship into prostitution. Their intertwined stories reveal the desperate choices faced amid the city’s bleak aftermath.
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