01 Mar 1925
The Joyless Street
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Women of the Night
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
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田中絹代 Fusako Owada
高杉早苗 Natsuko Kimijima
浦辺粂子 Brothel Keeper
Tomie Tsunoda Kumiko Owada
永田光男 Kenzô Kuriyama
青山宏 
Fusako Maki 毛利菊枝 
沢村貞子 Ken Tanaka 富本民平 浦辺粂子 Brothel-keeper
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