Yoru no onnatachi /  Women of the night / a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. 
 Women of the night 

, Japan 
 - 1 videodisc (74 min.) :  sound, black and white ;  4 3/4 in. 
 -  plastic  4 3/4 in. 
 - Eclipse. Series 13, Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women .
 - Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).  Series 13,  Kenji Mizoguchi's fallen women. .
<br/><br/> Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.  Full screen (1.33:1).  A foreign film (Japan).  Based on the novel : Joseimatsuri / by Eijiro Hisaita.  Container liner includes essay "Dark city," by film scholar Michael Koresky. 
<br/><br/>Satsuei, Sugiyama Kōhei ; ongaku, Ōsawa Hisato.  Satsuei, Sugiyama Kōhei ; ongaku, Ōsawa Hisato. 
<br/><br/>Tanaka Kinuyo, Takasugi Sanae, Tsunoda Tomie, Nagata Mitsuo, Murata Hirohisa, Urabe Kumeko, Mōri Kikue. 
<br/><br/> Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the night concerns two sisters, Fusako and Natsuko, one a war widow and the other in an affair with a drug dealer. Along with their younger friend Kumiko they fall into prostitution and moral chaos and a life of gangs and gangsters, trapped by their city's postwar desperation and devastation. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital mono. 
<br/><br/><br/>In Japanese with optional English subtitles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781604650983 1604650982 9781604650983 1604650982 9781604650938 1604650931 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>715515033527 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>ECL059  The Criterion Collection ECL056  The Criterion Collection 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hisaita, Eijirō, 1898-1976 --Film adaptations.<br/>Hisaita, Eijirō, 1898-1976. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1900 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War widows--Japan--Drama.<br/>Prostitutes--Japan--Drama.<br/>Drug dealers--Japan--Drama.<br/>Gangs--Japan--Drama.<br/>Adultery--Japan--Drama.<br/>Women--Social conditions--Japan--20th century--Drama.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Civilians--Drama.<br/>Adultery.<br/>Drug dealers.<br/>Gangs.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Prostitutes.<br/>War widows.<br/>Women--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Social life and customs--1945---Drama.<br/>Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Foreign films.<br/>Motion pictures--Japan.<br/>Japanese language films.<br/>Drama.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Film adaptations.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Fallen woman--Feature.<br/>Films de fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1997  / .Y678 2008 PN1997  / .W6458 2008 PL829.I8  / J67 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/72