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Girls of the Night (1961)

Girls of the Night poster
Original title
女ばかりの夜
Directed by
Kinuyo Tanaka
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
TP
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman struggles to leave her life in prostitution behind. The story follows her attempts to find a new path and the obstacles she faces.

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What happens

Girls of the Night (Japanese: 女ばかりの夜, Hepburn: Onna bakari no yoru; lit. Nothing but Women of the Night), also titled Girls of Dark, is a 1961 Japanese drama film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka and written by Sumie Tanaka. It was the second collaboration of the director and the screenwriter after the 1955 The Eternal Breasts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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