Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
- prostitute
- based on novel or book
- despair
- brothel
- tokyo
- japan
- poverty
- post war japan
- shame
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Kenji Sugawara — Eiko
- Yasuko Kawakami — Shizuko
- Eitarō Shindō — Kurazô Taya
- Bontarō Miake — Officer Nonomura
- Haruo Tanaka — Osaka Salesman
- Sadako Sawamura — Tatsuko Taya
- Daisuke Katō — Mr. Nomura
- Hisao Toake — Shiomi
- Jun Tatara — Yumeko's Client
- Osamu Maruyama — Sato Yasukichi
- Hiroko Machida — Yorie
- Directed
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Written
- Masashige Narusawa
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 151 ratings
- Studio
- Daiei Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
