Onna bakari no yoru

1961
1h 33m

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A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.

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Ayako Saito notes in the book 'Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity' that the ending of the film differs from the ending of the novel 'Michi aredo' by Masako Yana, of which it is the adaptation. In the novel, the heroine Kuniko ends up returning to the street to prostitution. Kinuyo Tanaka and Sumie Tanaka wanted a less pessimistic conclusion in the film, the last shot shows Kuniko working as an 'ama' (underwater snorkeler).

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Working Girls

The English-language title suggests one of those baleful dramas about geishas Japanese cinema was awash with during the fifties. But (as the original Japanese title 'All-Women's Night makes clear) director Kinuyo Tanaka and Kurosaw's regular cameraman Azakazu Naikai employ the widescreen format with the effortless grace peculiar to the Japanese to fill the screen with lively young ladies who bustle about and pull their hair for an hour and a half.