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Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2008.

Sexual harassment of women -- Drama.

Geishas -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Social conditions -- Drama.

Women -- Japan -- Drama.

Prostitution -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.

Red-light districts -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.

Prostitution -- Drama.

Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Series 13, Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women.

Video Difference legacy collection.

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Alternate title:

Fallen women [videorecording (DVD)]

Naniwa ereji [videorecording (DVD)].

Osaka elegy [videorecording (DVD)].

Gion no shimai [videorecording (DVD)].

Sisters of the Gion [videorecording (DVD)].

Yoru no onnatachi [videorecording (DVD)].

Women of the night [videorecording (DVD)].

Akasen chitai [videorecording (DVD)].

Street of shame [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

4 videodiscs (299 min.) : Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Women of the night is based on the novel "Joseimatsuri" by Eijiro Hisaita.

Originally released as a motion pictures between 1936 and 1956.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

[v. 1]. Naniwa ereji = Osaka elegy (1936, 71 min.) / produced by Masaichi Nagata ; original story by Kenji Mizoguchi ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda -- [v. 2]. Gion no shimai = Sisters of the Gion (1936, 69 min.) / produced by Masaichi Nagata ; original story by Kenji Mizoguchi ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda -- [v. 3]. Yoru no onnatachi = Women of the night (1948, 74 min.) / produced by Hisao Itoya ; screenplay by Eijiro Hisaita -- [v. 4]. Akasen chitai = Street of shame (1956, 85 min.) / screenplay by Masashige Nakaumra ; produced by Masaichi Nagata.

Director, Kenji Mizoguchi.

Osaka elegy: Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura, Chiyako Okura, Shinpachiro Asaka, Benkei Shiganoya, Eitaro Shindo, Kunio Tamura, Seiichi Takekawa, Kensaku Hara and Takashi Shimura.

Sisters of the Gion: Isuzu Yamada, Yoko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Kazuko Hisano, Fumio Okura, Taizo Fukami, Eitaro Shindo, Sakurako Iwama, Somenosuke Hayashiya, Reiko Aoi, Shizuko Takizawa and Kozo Tachibana.

Women of the night: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takesugi, Tomie Tsunoda and Mitsuo Nagata.

Street of shame: Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Kawakami, Michiyo Kogure, Aiko Mimasu and Kenji Sugawara.

"Over the course of a three-decade, more than eighty film career, master cineaste Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff) would return again and again to one abiding theme: the plight of women in male-dominated Japanese society. In these four lacerating works of socially conscious melodrama -- two prewar (Osaka Elegy, Sisters of the Gion), two postwar (Women of the Night, Street of Shame) -- Mizoguchi introduces an array of compelling female protagonists, crushed or resilient, who are economically and spiritually deprived by their nation's customs and traditions. With Mizoguchi's visual daring and eloquence, these films are as cinematically thrilling as they are politically rousing. [Films include] Osaka Elegy (Naniwa ereji): Switchboard operator Ayako (Isuku Yamada) agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father -- setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral. Sisters Of The Gion (Gion no shimai): Two geisha sisters -- one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional -- disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods in Mizoguchi's early masterpiece. Women Of The Night (Yoru no onnatachi): This ragged, searing melodrama about postwar degradation in Japan centers on three women, abandoned by society, whose only survival option is to compromise their bodies and souls. Street Of Shame (Akasen chitai): In a brothel in Tokyo's red-light district, a group of working women, their profession on the verge of being outlawed, deal with life's disappointments, large and small. This beautiful, humane film was Mizoguchi's last."--Container.

Japanese films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Hisaita, Eijirō, 1898-1976. Joseimatsuri.

Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956.

Yamada, Isuzu, 1917-2012.

Umemura, Yôko.

Okura, Chiyako.

Shiganoya, Benkei.

Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977.

Takasugi, Sanae, 1918-1995.

Tsunoda, Tomie.

Nagata, Mitsuo, actor.

Kyo, Machiko, 1924-

Wakao, Ayako, 1933-

Kawakami, Yasuko.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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