Yoru no onnatachi
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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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | Japanese |
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1948.
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| Edition: | Standard format (1.33:1). |
| Series: | Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women.
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| Summary: | 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 postwar desperation and devastation. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Based on the novel : Joseimatsuri / by Eijiro Hisaita. Container liner includes essay "Dark city", by film scholar Michael Koresky. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital mono. |
| Production Credits: | Satsuei, Sugiyama Kōhei ; ongaku, Ōsawa Hisato. |
| ISBN: | 9781604650983 1604650982 9781604650938 1604650931 |