1948 · drama
Women of the Night
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi1h 14m1948
In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Our read: Women of the Night (1948) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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