Kenji mizoguchi women of the night

Women of the night movie

Temporal shifts and ellipses bring us closer to the disorientation felt by these lost women stranded in cold post-war Japan, unsure where to go to find again (or for the first time) .
kenji mizoguchi women of the night

Woman of the night (1973)

Kenji Mizoguchi.


Kenji mizoguchi best films

Four of them are collected in Eclipse Series Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women, and the film I’m reviewing today, Women of the Night (from ), provides a fascinating counterpoint to the historical saga that he would direct just four years later.
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Women of the Night (, Kenji Mizoguchi) October 23, October 23, ~ B. Stanton Here Mizoguchi treads the trails left by the neo-realists and if the result is not a masterpiece (it lacks the sureness and completeness of so many of his best films) it’s still a remarkable and scrappy work of art, a sort of howl of rage and despair so.