Women of the Night

Year: 1948

Runtime: 74 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Drama

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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