← Back to films
Women of the Night

Women of the Night

7,1 /10 (31 Votes)
1948 JA 74 min

Overview

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.

Release date

26/05/1948

Votes

31

Popularity

0.7

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

夜の女たち

Language

JA

Runtime

74 min

Original Soundtrack

Loading soundtrack videos…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-07-09

⭐ 4

Sadly, this is an overly convoluted tale that could have done rather more had William Rowland kept his cast focused. As it is, it's a fairly preposterous tale of some die-hard Nazis who may have a secret cosmic ray in the Oriental theatre of War. Determined to keep it from their Japanese allies who have just been victim to the Nagasaki A-bomb, much of the action takes place in a bordello, of sorts, where women have been drafted in from Shanghai University to "entertain" the Japanese officers and who are now bent on vengeance - or at least most of them are. Is there a traitor amongst them? Mean…

Read full review →