Onna bakari no yoru

1961 [JAPANESE]

Drama

4
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 410 410

woman director

Plot summary

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

Director

Kinuyo Tanaka Photo
Kinuyo Tanaka

Top cast

Sadako Sawamura Photo
Sadako Sawamura as Dr. Kitamura
Yuki Aresa Photo
Yuki Aresa as Tomeko
Akemi Kita Photo
Akemi Kita as Chieko
Chieko Seki Photo
Chieko Seki as Oyuki
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851.86 MB
1280*546
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 2
1.54 GB
1920*818
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lino_reis 8 / 10

Kuniko's redemption

This film by Kinuyo Tanaka is a moving account of the lives of women disgraced in post WW II Japan for having become prostitutes. The movie follows a group of women hosted by a rehabilitation center after prostitution became ilegal. It focuses on one of them, Kuniko, in her search for a new life as she is allowed to leave the center.Most of the characters are women and their acting is great. Life in the real world turns out to be harsh for Kuniko: the story is told as crudely as a realistic view of life may allow. Some excerpts are perhaps lacking in subtlety, or the plot may be insufficiently worked out, as it seems it would be not difficult to make it gain richness and complexity. This is most remarkable in what concerns the brief episode where Kuniko seduces her boss, the shop owner.Towards the middle of the story, a male character - Tsukasa -- appears to bring a refreshing, soothing change in the way Destiny has treated Kuniko. However both Kuniko and Tsukasa soon learn that happiness escapes their reach. Tanaka wants to underline this feature in the concrete situation, in the fifties in Japan, of women whose fate is haunted by the indelible stain of prostitution. Forgiveness is not possible and it starts inside the sinner itself. Hence the finale (in a most Christian flavor!) carries signs of resignation and redemption.What a pleasant movie, in the current state of cinema, where disappointment lurks at the threshold of most theaters as you step in.
Reviewed by richardchatten 7 / 10

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.
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