Yoru no onnatachi (1948)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Escritores:

Eijirô Hisaita (novel)
Yoshikata Yoda (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 febrero 1979 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Fusako's tenuous...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Forceful and powerful

Reparto

Kinuyo Tanaka	...	Fusako Owada
Sanae Takasugi	...	Natsuko Kimijima
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Hiroshi Aoyama
Fusako Maki
Kikue Môri
Mitsuo Nagata	...	Kenzô Kuriyama
Sadako Sawamura
Ken Tanaka
Mimpei Tomimoto
Tomie Tsunoda	...	Kumiko Owada
Kumeko Urabe	...	brothel-keeper

También conocida como:

Women of the Night

Duración:

105 min | USA:75 min

País:

Japan

Idioma:

Japonés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Hong Kong:I

Compañía:

Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975)

Forceful and powerful

Startling, forceful tale of women descending into a life of prostitution in post-war Osaka. Kinuyo Tanaka, who would play the lost mother of the protagonists in Sansho the Bailiff, stars as a woman who lost both her husband and son to illness long after the war has ended. When her younger sister, Sanae Takasugi, steals the man she's having an affair with, she joins the streetwalkers. Mizoguchi was heavily influenced by Italian Neorealism here, and most of it was filmed in the ruined streets of Osaka. It's blunt as Hell, and arguably exploitative. Mizoguchi disowned it later in his career. The two best sequences in the film, one where a group of prostitutes denudes a young rape victim, and the final one where Tanaka comes to the rescue of the same girl when another group of prostitutes is attacking her, are the seeds that would spawn Seijun Suzuki's Gate of Flesh. That's definitely a compliment, in my book. That final sequence in particular, despite more than a little heavy-handedness (it takes place in a burnt-out church), is one of the most emotionally draining in the director's career.